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

[David Kelly]

On May 15, 2004, at 1:20 PM, dfox wrote:

> 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.

Something like this? (with any luck it won't line wrap at Yahoo!)

last pid: 64543;  load averages: 0.38, 0.23, 0.18 up 3+15:39:41  
14:37:50
55 processes:  2 running, 53 sleeping
CPU states: 12.6% user, 0.0% nice, 2.4% system, 0.9% interrupt, 84.1% 
idle
Mem: 557M Active, 151M Inact, 227M Wired, 33M Cache, 112M Buf, 34M Free
Swap: 1523M Total, 1045M Used, 478M Free, 68% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU 
COMMAND
63960 dkelly    97    0  1564M   586M RUN     57:01 11.43% 11.43% pan
64543 dkelly    96    0  2232K  1316K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top

The above is pan 0.14.91, FreeBSD 5.2.1 with 1G RAM on a 1.5M message 
newsgroup after having completed an "all headers" re-download. A simple 
load from local cache file after restarting pan results in "only" 900M 
or so of "SIZE".

There is something similar to a memory leak going on because at the 
size shown above I don't dare perform another "all headers" download. 
My kernel limits for per-process data memory is bumped from the default 
512MB to 2048MB, and I've seen pan try to exceed that limit on this 
very newsgroup.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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