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RE: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups
From: |
Erik |
Subject: |
RE: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:05:17 -0600 |
> I was wondering if anyone could give some tips for using Pan with large
> binary groups. I have a gig of memory in my machine, and Pan's cache is
> set to a gig as well. However, loading a newsgroup with about 2 million
> headers ends up causing Pan to start thrashing swap space about 2/3 of the
> way through loading the group, or downloading that many new headers. The
> machine slows down to a crawl and the rest of the (down)load takes
> excessively long.
This is because you have 1 gig of cache. Lower it to a reasonable
amount and try again. 10 MB here and no high memory usage, swapping,
etc, even on machines with 128-256MB of RAM.
--
Erik
RE: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups,
Erik <=
[Pan-users] RE: suggestions for large groups, Lenroc, 2004/01/04
Re: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups, Frank Colson, 2004/01/05