Re: [Pan-users] Reproducible crash retrieving headers in million-header group

[Ron Johnson]

On 07/29/2010 11:51 AM, Wayne E. Nail wrote:
> Using a fresh build from this commit:
>
> commit 7633369be756f0d0fdc6891494440773f8131624
> Merge: 41a1f5c ae20158
> Author: K. Haley<address@hidden>
> Date:   Sun Jun 20 16:13:27 2010 -0600
>
> I am seeing reproducible failure to retrieve 400 days' headers from a
> newsgroup known to routinely carry one million or more articles.
>
> In this instance Pan failed at 85%, 936848 articles, and claimed it had
> 0:05:04 remaining before finish.
>
> The crash log is: http://pastebin.org/428180
>
> If this log is useless please tell me, and I will run Pan again under
> the same conditions but with whatever modifications you advise.
>
> I am pretty sure I have had Pan download *all* headers from a
> well-over-one-million-headers newsgroup in the past.

Could you be running out of "process space"?

With a 32-bit kernel, you only get approx 1.9GB of RAM per process. 
 Running a 64-bit kernel, though, even with a 32-bit userland, 
gives each process 3.9GB.

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