Re: [Pan-users] Re: Possible crash when out of disk space while downloading group headers?

[Charles Kerr]

CH Low wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I am still downloading from that particular
> newsgroup.  It is up to 190,100 articles and still increasing, with
> another reportedly 75% to go.  I will update this thread on my results.

Thanks.  If you do get a crash, please try to get a backtrace
as described at http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugs/#backtrace .

> However, one thing I notice is that my filesystem space doesn't seem to
> decrease as this newsgroup is being downloaded.  The newsgroup does not
> appear in .pan2/groups yet so I wonder where it is storing this
> information.

In memory.  It saves the overview information in one big burst after
the 'get headers' command finishes.

Charles