Re: [Pan-users] 0.14.0 Slow on large group

[Bobby D. Bryant]

On 2003.06.29 12:39, T-Bone wrote:

> I have been using Pan for a while now.  I have a binary group that 
> has grown quite large of late.  Currently the total article count for 
> this group is at 1008007.  I always save loading and looking at this 
> group for when I have something other to do than sit at the machine 
> and stare at a churning app.  It takes a VERY long time to load ,
> display or generally work with this group.  Is anything being done to 
> either speed up handling of very large groups?

A different but related issue... I finally figured out what causes a 
bug that I mentioned here a few months ago.  Sometimes when I load a 
group some of the subject lines will have (n) appended to show that 
there are n new messages, but when I open the thread there aren't any 
new messages there.

What's happening is this.  I don't automagically download headers when 
I select a group; I have to type 'a' to download them.  If I want new 
headers I usually just click to load the group and then immediately 
type 'a' to fetch the new headers.  But on large groups (~20K messages) 
the download will finish before the load/sort/display of the existing 
headers, and the result is the anomalous display that I mentioned 
before.

All the information is present; it just isn't displayed correctly.  For 
example, if I get the anomalous display I can immediately exit Pan, 
restart Pan, and click to load the group (but not download new 
headers), and all the missing articles will now be visible, and will 
still be boldened to show that they are new.

I'm not sure what the proper fix is.  My guess is that the load/sort/
display for the existing headers and then for the new headers need to 
be queued up where they can't execute simultaneously, but I don't know 
what impact that would have on other operations.

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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas