Re: [Pan-users] Re: freeze, high CPU getting new headers

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/01/2008 Greg Lee wrote:
> That happens to me.  I think it's a bug.  When loading a large number
> of headers, about 3/4 of the way through, the GUI loses it, and I just
> have to wait until the headers from that group are loaded.  Pan will 
> not
> respond until the headers are all loaded. 

In that case, it sounds like there's either a bug in the sorting/loading 
routines or an algorythm that doesn't scale properly.  As an example, a 
simple bubble sort will be fine for twenty or thirty headers, the most 
that I see except in unusual circumstances, or if I've been away for 
several days, but far too slow for several hundred headers and 
completely bogged down for a group with well over a thousand.  (N.B.: 
when I first installed Pan and had it get all the recent headers for my 
favorite group, it brought down almost 4,000, and had them sorted in 
under thirty seconds.)