[Pan-users] Re: reducing memory usage

[Charles Kerr]

cvs4me wrote:

> you should try the alt.binaries.multimedia.startrek group
> on giganews, some 6M headers. That's a real challenge !!

Indeed it is.  Are there many newsgroups that busy? :)

Yesterday I gave 0.110 the a.b.m.startrek challenge -- it failed.
The 'get headers' task was doing things that were find for regular
groups, even large groups, but once you get up past 1,000,000 headers
the overhead snowballed.

I gave bugzilla a longish brain dump on the things I found wrong.
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353334 for more info.

More importantly, it also has a patch to fix this in 0.111.  I tested
the patch against both 0.110 and 0.14.9x CVS, and the patch won.
memory comparisons are also included in the bug report.

cheers,
Charles