Re: [Pan-users] size of newsrc-1 file

[Heinz Mezera]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.07.2016, 17:08 +0000 schrieb Duncan:
> Heinz Mezera posted on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:09:26 +0200 as excerpted:
> 
> > 
> > a detailed answer as ususal!
> > 
> > Forgive me if I do not follow standard answering methods and
> > summerize
> > here:
> > 
> > Pan takes approx. 10 minutes to start,
> > ls -lh newsrc-1 --> 567M (a manual edit would be an enormous task
> > and
> > I've _never_ done any scripting before)
> > renamed article-cache directory and reduced cache size to 10 MB
> > (from
> > 100)
> > only one news server less than a dozen groups subscribed (a few
> > text,
> > others binaries)
> > my working style: read new headers, decide which ones might be of
> > interest and save them to disk; I never go back to yesterdays or
> > older
> > articles I don't use scores (or I'm not aware off)
> > 
> > Should I remove/rename .pan2 directory and start from scratch?
> Well, what the newsrc tracks is read articles.  If you rename or
> remove 
> it, you'll get all articles on the server as unread, which might be a
> bit 
> of an issue, but you'll still do far better than starting from
> scratch 
> and having to reconfigure everything.

I renamed .pan2 and started from scratch; wasn't to difficult. Result
is great. Pan's starting time went from 10 minutes down to 25 seconds;
newsrc-1 size from ~560M to 3.2M

kr Heinz