[Pan-users] 0.90 - memory/swap issues back

[jef_e]

In playing with the new version, it looks like the problems with large
groups and Pan going nuts have returned.

Pan is reporting the following total for a.b.multimedia.
alt.binaries.multimedia         633200

It took a long time to download all of the headers initially, as well.
Exact time unknown, as I had a few things going on here - but certainly
no quicker than the recent CVS. It also seemed to start the swap
problem, as the system turned sluggish afterward.

I double-clicked the group list to open it, and here we go, a quick top
snapshot - high load, full swap, high CPU time:

top - 18:50:47 up 16 days, 18:12,  1 user,  load average: 1.77, 1.68, 1.00
Tasks: 120 total,   2 running, 118 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.0% us,  7.0% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 80.4% wa,  0.0% hi,  2.7% si
Mem:   2065548k total,  2015252k used,    50296k free,     3036k buffers
Swap:  1951856k total,  1951816k used,       40k free,    31628k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

24968 jef       18   0 1780m 1.6g  788 D  6.2 80.4  13:43.22 pan

  153 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  3.9  0.0   1:41.83 kswapd0



Debian testing, 2GB RAM, 2.53GHz Celeron. Using Giganews All-You-Can-Eat
 plan :-)