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From: | jef_e |
Subject: | Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers? |
Date: | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:42:02 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) |
Phillip Pi wrote:
Hello,Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of headers from a newsgroup?
It's not you. It's been discussed a lot in the past, and they way pan deals with things just isn't scalable to the level that many premium news providers now go with retention.
I tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from alt.binaries.hdtv newsgroup. My computer choked at about 1,900,000 headers when I came back from a 30 minutes break.
I recently upgraded to 2GB of RAM, and find that I can handle just a bit over 2.2 million before things get wacky. (When I only had 512MB, it was maybe 500,000)
HDD light was spinning, m
KDE v3.3.4 was frozen and not responsive. I had to kill Pan via SSH. Of course that was slow as heck too. I eventually to kill X server because stuff was broken.
Just killing pan should be enough, it just takes a while for things to settle down.
I am using an Athlon XP 2200+ with 1 GB of RAM. Isn't that enough or is Pan not optimized for this big number of headers?
Last I heard, the Pan team is working a new database backend that will clear up this problem. Take a look at the files in ~/.pan/<your news server> to see why things get so bogged down. Right now, my file for alt.binaries.multimedia is a tad over 1 GB in size :)
You best bet is to load headers in small groups, deleting the old and unwanted stuff.
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