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

[Travis]

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From: "David Shochat" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:39 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] freeze, high CPU getting new headers


>I don't know when this started happening, but it was during the 0.132 
>era, so it has to be something that changed on my system. This is a 
>fully-updated Ubuntu 8.04 system. I have 1Gb of memory. When getting 
>new headers in a large binary group, (either as a result of entering, 
>or after invoking Groups->Get Headers...), the progress indicator goes 
>normally for a while (10 sec. or so) and then it stops. At this point, 
>top says that pan is at 98-100% CPU and the GUI is unresponsive. That 
>goes on for as long as 20 minutes, after which it (usually) gets 
>unstuck by itself. All other functionality is completely normal. It is 
>only the "Get new headers" phase that has this behavior. Another 
>interesting fact is that I also can run pan on my MacBook (MacOS X 
>10.5.4) -- 0.132 -- haven't yet built 0.133 for the Mac. Anyway, 
>running on the Mac I do not have this problem at all. Only on my Linux 
>machine. One experiment I tried was to run with PAN_HOME set to a 
>directory on a USB hard disk with FAT32 format (I was wondering if it 
>had something to do with my hard disk). This made no difference; the 
>behavior was exactly the same. Going to 0.133 did not change anything. 
>I'm currently out of ideas, so I'm asking for suggestions.

My guess is not enough memory.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington