Re: [Pan-users] Performance and hardware req's Was: .. Multiple Servers ..

[Duncan]

On Monday 07 October 2002 14:18, Mark H. Kraml wrote:
> On the topic of performance, I have a 1GHz P3 with 512MB RAM, not the
> fastest round, but not out of the norm of machines we would want to
> support. Even today, with 1 million headers, the performance for loading
> and managing groups is quite, well, unimpressive.

U didn't mention your version, but the with the 0.13.0.9x beta series (IIRC) 
startup times at least are far better.  Basically, what they did is bring up 
the GUI interface and let the user start working, while it is still loading 
in the background.  The flip side of this is that a group may be displayed b4 
fully loaded, with many of the overviews showing as uncached, when they are 
actually cached, causing a bit of panicy "what happened to all those messages 
I d/led last session?", until the user realized what is going on.  That's 
happened to me a couple times.

Charles... Suggestion based on the above...  some sort of "Pan working in 
background" indicator might be useful.   A reminder icon that goes away when 
fully loaded or soemthing?

As for hardware, I have a 1.2 Athlon C running 512M PC2100 memory, here.  
While certainly not the fastest around, I consider it above what most have, 
particularly in memory.  I'd say a 700-800 MHz Athlon (800-900-ish PIII) w/ 
128-256MB of memory is a realistic "recommended minimum hardware" at this 
point, for a GUI style app such as PAN, although there ARE still a lot of 
folks out there running 64MB 300-ish MHz Celerons/K6's, which Linux has a 
reputation of doing better on than MSWormOS.

Out of curiosity...  What ARE the recommended minimum requirements for Gnome2 
on Linux/X?

-- 
Duncan
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