[Pan-users] Patch for faster sorting of new groups (Was: The Sorting, it's so Slow!!!)

[Charles Kerr]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:51:04PM -0500, Kelly, Mark wrote:
> Hey all, I'm using pan 0.13.3, and I love the features it has.  By far the
> best newsreader for linux.  
> 
> My only problem is that it just seems unbearable slow at sorting large
> groups of new messages.  I have a Dual P3 933 mobo with 512 megs of DDR, and
> it just doesn't seem to me that it should be this slow when sorting.
> 
> Sometimes I go for a few days without getting posts and there might be over
> a 100,000 new posts (well, today it had been over a week and there where
> 200,000 new posts).  And's it's been 20 mins and it's still sorting?  Are
> there any speed tweaks for this?  

I usually don't peruse the really big newsgroups, but I tried it out
this evening and there was a huge, simple bottleneck staring me in
the face.  When the CPU is pegged at 100% for a couple of minutes, it's
not too hard to figure out where the bottleneck is. ;)

Anyone care to give this patch a spin?

slow_sorting.patch
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