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[Pan-users] Patch for faster sorting of new groups (Was: The Sorting, i
From: |
Charles Kerr |
Subject: |
[Pan-users] Patch for faster sorting of new groups (Was: The Sorting, it's so Slow!!!) |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:05:01 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.3.20i |
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:51:04PM -0500, Kelly, Mark wrote:
> Hey all, I'm using pan 0.13.3, and I love the features it has. By far the
> best newsreader for linux.
>
> My only problem is that it just seems unbearable slow at sorting large
> groups of new messages. I have a Dual P3 933 mobo with 512 megs of DDR, and
> it just doesn't seem to me that it should be this slow when sorting.
>
> Sometimes I go for a few days without getting posts and there might be over
> a 100,000 new posts (well, today it had been over a week and there where
> 200,000 new posts). And's it's been 20 mins and it's still sorting? Are
> there any speed tweaks for this?
I usually don't peruse the really big newsgroups, but I tried it out
this evening and there was a huge, simple bottleneck staring me in
the face. When the CPU is pegged at 100% for a couple of minutes, it's
not too hard to figure out where the bottleneck is. ;)
Anyone care to give this patch a spin?
slow_sorting.patch
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