Re: [Pan-users] Pan has 8 Processes, using 1436MB! That's eatingmy RAM!

[dfox]

Dr. Wrigley:

Hope you forgive the intrusion as I haven't yet joined the list, 
otherwise I'd just continue on the thread.

It seems you're experiencing the same problem as I have over the last 
few months -- namely, memory usage in pan. I've experienced this for 
sometime, especially on importing lists of large numbers of posts in 
any of a number of binaries newsgroups. 

I've had (only) 256 megs of RAM in my box for quite sometime, until 
recently. With so little RAM, pan can be almost useless in these 
groups.

I recently upgraded my box, which runs Mandrake 10.0 Community, to a 
whopping 768 megs. This alleviated the problem until yesterday, when 
after slogging through alt.binaries.multimedia, pan grew until it 
consumed 1.2 gigs of VM, which swamped my box, which has an 
additional 800 megs available for swap.

At present, I'm skeptical on the memory leak issue, and am thinking 
that it's simply the amount of headers  available that's causing pan 
to go wild. I've seen the consumption decrease, if, for instance I 
migrate from a very busy newsgroup to one with fewer posts. My box is 
more or less directly connected to Supernews (through my ISP) so 
there can be large amounts of headers to go through.

Still, it would be nice if there were ways to get around this issue.

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