1.5 Timeouts on Dual Core
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1.5 Timeouts on Dual Core
Both myself and my college have installed 1.5 and have found it to be a little unstable on our machines. On Startup I get a message window saying every server has timed out (2 pop and 1 Imap). My college has the same thing on a different lan connection.
From then on my machine seems ok, as long as I don't do a manual Send/Receive, however my friends constantly gets timeouts.
Before 1.5 we were both happily running v1.0.7 with no problems whatsoever.
Specs of machines:-
Athlon 64 X2
Windows XP SP2 (32bit)
8meg DSL with fixed IP
[EDIT]
We have both re-installed 1.0.7 and the problems have gone away which does point to a problem with 1.5.
Cheers
From then on my machine seems ok, as long as I don't do a manual Send/Receive, however my friends constantly gets timeouts.
Before 1.5 we were both happily running v1.0.7 with no problems whatsoever.
Specs of machines:-
Athlon 64 X2
Windows XP SP2 (32bit)
8meg DSL with fixed IP
[EDIT]
We have both re-installed 1.0.7 and the problems have gone away which does point to a problem with 1.5.
Cheers
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Check if you have a maximum message size limit is set in tools->account settings->disk space.
Change Timeout to 180 seconds
If you add the following line to either your prefs.js or user.js file it will set the POP3 server timeout to 180 seconds. It defaults to 45 seconds. I suspect you're timing out.
user_pref("mail.pop3_response_timeout", 180);
You can use a text editor or you might find it easiest to install the chromedit extension.
It lets you edit user.js from within Thunderbird, thus eliminating your having to know where your profile is stored etc.
---> http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=22
Info on --> Modify Thunderbird response timeout settings
More Info --> <Here>
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Change Timeout to 180 seconds
If you add the following line to either your prefs.js or user.js file it will set the POP3 server timeout to 180 seconds. It defaults to 45 seconds. I suspect you're timing out.
user_pref("mail.pop3_response_timeout", 180);
You can use a text editor or you might find it easiest to install the chromedit extension.
It lets you edit user.js from within Thunderbird, thus eliminating your having to know where your profile is stored etc.
---> http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=22
Info on --> Modify Thunderbird response timeout settings
More Info --> <Here>
~ Bill
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Bill,
Many thanks for the response. I will try the settings now. However, something I failed to mention is that the message window appears instantly. When I open 1.5 There is no delay between the app initialising and the message window appearing. This is the same for pressing the Send and Receive button. My college is getting the same thing.
On checking netstat there is no timewait from the server which leads me to believe its not even getting to the connection stage to timeout.
Additioanlly overwriting 1.5 with 1.0.7 makes the problem go away for both of us.
Can you tell me what would have changed in the preferences between the 2 versions?
Many thanks
Dave
Many thanks for the response. I will try the settings now. However, something I failed to mention is that the message window appears instantly. When I open 1.5 There is no delay between the app initialising and the message window appearing. This is the same for pressing the Send and Receive button. My college is getting the same thing.
On checking netstat there is no timewait from the server which leads me to believe its not even getting to the connection stage to timeout.
Additioanlly overwriting 1.5 with 1.0.7 makes the problem go away for both of us.
Can you tell me what would have changed in the preferences between the 2 versions?
Many thanks
Dave
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I'm having the same problem, as soon as I start Thunderbird 1.5 I get this time out message. I also have a dual core CPU (Athlon 64 X2 4800+). After setting the afinity of thunderbird.exe to only one core it worked fine. This means the problem is most likely dual core (or better: multi cpu) related.
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RiceRemodeling wrote:Change Timeout to 180 seconds
If you add the following line to either your prefs.js or user.js file it will set the POP3 server timeout to 180 seconds. It defaults to 45 seconds. I suspect you're timing out.
I've changed my timeout to 600, without any success. The timeout mesage generally appears within 5-10 seconds of starting Thunderbird. It also seems to randomly happen when I click on a folder / message, after 5-10 seconds. I can click on another message/folder and they load, and than I can return to the message that gave me to error without a problem.
It all seems to be random! This is from IMAP, BTW.
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JeffreyReid:
Everything is pointing to using only one core of the processor pointed out by Zeikzeil.
I have found an app that allows you to set programs to permantly use one core found here:-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Instructions can be found here:-
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee ... 2005236731
Hope this helps.
dave
Everything is pointing to using only one core of the processor pointed out by Zeikzeil.
I have found an app that allows you to set programs to permantly use one core found here:-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Instructions can be found here:-
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee ... 2005236731
Hope this helps.
dave
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See http://www.robpol86.com/Pages/imagecfg.php . It has a link to download the imagecfg.exe program which you can use to permanently bind a application to one core, plus instructions. Supposedly that tool is also available from the Windows 2000 or Windows XP Server Resource Kit.
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I added a http://kb.mozillazine.org/Timeout_on_dual_core knowledge base article.
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This other option (from the kb article above) seems to have solved this problem for me:
If changing the timer settings doesn't help download the nspr4.dll file and save it to the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird directory, overwriting the existing file. This is the intended (but as of yet unreleased) production fix for Thunderbird 1.5 .
If changing the timer settings doesn't help download the nspr4.dll file and save it to the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird directory, overwriting the existing file. This is the intended (but as of yet unreleased) production fix for Thunderbird 1.5 .