Re: [Pan-users] Loading Newsgroup Headers

[S. Cowles]

On Friday 14 May 2004 17:13, David Kelly wrote:
> Using either 0.14.2 or 0.14.2.91 under FreeBSD 5.2.1 I got the great
> idea to disable "automatic load of new headers" when I started dealing
> with a 1.5M header newsgroup.
>
> Launch pan, double-click on the newsgroup, and the bottom status line
> says its loading NNN of 1.5M something headers. This is never followed
> with "scoring...", "filtering...", or "updating display panels."
> Process size grows to something between 700M and 1000M. I have already
> dealt with 1G of RAM, 1.5G of swap, and kernel per-process data limit
> is set at 2G.
>
> Once I have a bloated application and blank panels nothing I have found
> will cause the headers to be listed. Can toggle the "Read" flag under
> filters thinking I'd trigger a re-filter and re-list.
>
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden

I have found that for 0.8-1.3M header newgroups the process will use in excess 
of 1.5G swap with 512M physical memory.  I run 2G swap and get the header 
display after a significant period, depending on load.