Re: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups

[Frank Colson]

If pan were to implement the .NBZ file specification downloading 2Million
headers may no longer be necessary.

Check out the spec at www.newzbin.com

Frank

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Subject: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups

> 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.
> 
> Do people have suggestions on anything else I could do to prevent 
> the thrashing for a large group? Is there some setting I could tweak,
>  or system parameter? Adding more physical memory isn't an option 
> (I'm maxed out). What exactly does Pan's cache deal with? Is there a 
> limit on number of headers that would help?
> 
> TIA,
> Joe
> 
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