Re: [Pan-users] speed of "Get new articles"

[John Morris]

You know, I have the same problem you describe.  When I download new headers 
from a large group, it pauses for a really long time.  Sometimes, the gui 
even stops responding, and like you there is no disk activity, and I have 
plenty of memory (512 meg).  When it does this, I can kill Pan, and restart 
it, and it immediately sorts and updates the new headers it already 
downloaded really fast.

It eventually got so bad that I deleted all of my cached article headers, and 
let it start from scratch.  It seems to work much better now, so perhaps I 
had some corruption in the cached articles.  You should try to dump yours as 
well and see if that helps.

I just deleted .pan/servername/*


John

On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:36 pm, Gert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question. Do you think it is possible to shorten the time pan
> spends processing the newsgroup after getting the new headers? I am
> subscribed to a binary newsgroup which has about 300.000 articles, and I
> just clicked on the get new article headers menu item. It started
> downloading, which it finished after a minute of 5, fetching the 90.000
> new headers. That was 29 minutes ago (and yes, this problem is common
> ;).
> I don't quite know what it is supposed to be doing now (other then
> consuming CPU cycles ;), but I doubt it is more then inserting
> structures in a sorted linked list (/tree) ?
>
> Well, anyway, I'm using 0.13.0 (the one in debian testing).
> [update it just finished, 33 minutes on a P3-450].
> The website reported a tweak "Lots of speed tweaks, particularly in
> refreshing the header pane." for 0.13.2.90, so maybe I'm just whining
> and not useing a recent enough version, but I'd still like to know why
> it takes so long (and wether it has been fixed).
>
> regards,
>       Gert