Closed Bug 55116 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Excessive bandwidth usage at www.astoundingspacethrills.com

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

x86
Other
defect

Tracking

()

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: awu, Assigned: gagan)

Details

On build 2000-09-29-09-MN6, I read about 111 strips on www.astoundingspacethrills.com which added up to less than 100MB. I minimized the window and possibly even went to another web page. Yet, mozilla kept downloading images, at the rate of 200MB/hour. That went on for 3 hours until I closed mozilla and noticed that it had done 630MB of incoming traffic (verified by ZoneAlarm). The traffic was also verified by UIUC's not-so-friendly network security officers, who promptly shut down my dorm port. So, I can not verify this bug without getting shut down, but I'm pretty sure this behaviour is atypical. I don't think the web page had autorefresh on, and even if it did, that does not sum to 200MB/hour.
Andrew, can you reproduce the problem with a more recent build? I just tried it with Linux trunk build 2000103108 and the page loads fine.... Also, do you have HTTP pipelining on? Try loading the page with pipelining on and off and see if one setting or the other leads to the behavior you describe.... (Pipelining is a pref under Debug -> Networking)
Unable to reproduce with 110104 mozilla trunk build on NT. Page loads normally.
Marking as Worksforme as per comments. If its still a problem please reopen the bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
verified wfm
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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