Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers?

[DPA]

The version in CVS has some changes that make it possible to handle even 
the largest groups at this time.  I think the long-term change is to use 
the SQL backend, but these changes work for now.

What distro are you running PAN on?

jef_e wrote:

> 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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