Re: [Pan-users] Pan still thrashing and eating up resources when encountering a LOT of articles.

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:07:58PM -0500, jef wrote:
> alt.binaries.multimedia currently has 1,141,831 headers on Giganews. I 
> know this is an insane amount, but Pan will bring the system to a crawl 
> trying to deal with them. Memory usage and load go through the roof. 
> Once loaded, trying to manipulate (mark read, or especially delete) more 
> than just a few thousand at a time begins to do the same thing.
> 
> Behavior is similar to how Pan used to behave on just 100,000 or so 
> headers before Charles made a tweak several versions back.

Jef, could you mail me -- OFFLIST ;) -- a bzipped copy of your
~/.pan/servername/alt.binaries.multimedia file?  I don't have any
groups of that size to tinker with.