Re: [Pan-users] Testers wanted: memory reduction for alt.binaries

[fred]

Charles Kerr wrote:
> fred wrote:
> > Charles Kerr wrote:
>
> > > Are you kidding me?!  a.b.dvd ate up your 4gb swap in 0.114.
> > > I knew this was a good patch, surely you're not telling me
> > > it saved 4gb??
>
> > When I got up it was done downloading. 1.6gb/2.0gb no swap used. 
> > Downloading a test iso now to see that there are not any hiccups.
> > Looks like you get a A++ on this one Charles.
>
> I've done a little more testing on this now.
>
> I put some print statements in to count how many bytes were saved.
> For a one-month sample of a.b.dvd, (465420691 bytes, == 443.8 meg)
> were saved.  Pan's footprint was 506 meg, and just starting up
> Pan costs 33 meg, so a.b.dvd cost (506-33 == 473) meg.
>
> So it looks the cost for large groups is cut about in half.
>
> I haven't looked at smaller groups yet.  They should be
> helped a little but not as big a percentage as the big groups.
> The more parts an article has, the more this patch will help.
>
> Charles
>
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Charles

Iso test download went without a hiccup. YAAAY.  Couple of odd things, 
search on a.b.dvd takes a long time 5+ minutes (maybe just due to size?) 
and it does not seem to surrender memory once it takes it. If I get 
a.b.dvd headers on screen pan takes 1.6 gb of memory, when I switch to a 
text only group a.c.p.mainboard.asus it is still using 1.6gb. Should it 
not free up that memory?

Thanks
Lazlow