Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan hanging on exit

[Joe Zeff]

walt wrote:

> Do you mean minutes literally, e.g. 120 seconds or more?  What is your
> CPU usage during this interval?

Yes: sometimes five to ten minutes, with top showing pan using anywhere 
from 48-82% of my CPU usage.


> Yes, you can delete the article-cache directory completely and pan will
> just make a new one.  When in doubt, I just rename a directory instead
> of deleting it, and then I can always put it back if something breaks.

I tried it, but no change.  In fact, it insisted that all the messages 
in my group were unread.  I had to resort, mark everything before today 
unread and redo everything.  Then, it hung so badly that I had to 
force-quit, and top showed that it was still running in the background 
until kill -9 put an end to it.

> Having said all this, my gut feeling is that the problem is elsewhere,
> like in the connection(s) to your news-server(s), for example.

One news server, and I find it hard to understand how that could have 
such an effect on exit.

> You might try starting pan from a terminal prompt with the --debug flag.
> Sometimes that will yield some helpful hints.

I just did: all the messages that I'd read today were marked unread 
again.  The last messages are here:

(socket-impl-gio.cc:548:set_watch_mode) set_watch_mode 2: _tag_watch is 
now 0
(nntp.cc:107:fire_done_func) I (0xa555690) am setting my _listener to 0
(nntp-pool.cc:114:check_in) nntp 0xa555690 is being checked in, health is 0
(data-impl.cc:102:save_state) data-impl dtor saving xov, newsrc...

After the first message above, it went into Deep Thought again, and I 
started replying to your message.  When I went back, it had finally 
exited with the rest of the messages.

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