The version in CVS has some changes that make it possible to handle even
the largest groups at this time. I think the long-term change is to use
the SQL backend, but these changes work for now.
What distro are you running PAN on?
jef_e wrote:
Phillip Pi wrote:
Hello,
Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of
headers from a newsgroup?
It's not you. It's been discussed a lot in the past, and they way pan
deals with things just isn't scalable to the level that many premium
news providers now go with retention.
I tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from alt.binaries.hdtv
newsgroup. My computer choked at about 1,900,000 headers when I came
back from a 30 minutes break.
I recently upgraded to 2GB of RAM, and find that I can handle just a
bit over 2.2 million before things get wacky. (When I only had 512MB,
it was maybe 500,000)
HDD light was spinning, m
KDE v3.3.4 was frozen and not responsive. I had to kill Pan via SSH.
Of course that was slow as heck too. I eventually to kill X server
because stuff was broken.
Just killing pan should be enough, it just takes a while for things to
settle down.
I am using an Athlon XP 2200+ with 1 GB of RAM. Isn't that enough or
is Pan not optimized for this big number of headers?
Last I heard, the Pan team is working a new database backend that will
clear up this problem. Take a look at the files in ~/.pan/<your news
server> to see why things get so bogged down. Right now, my file for
alt.binaries.multimedia is a tad over 1 GB in size :)
You best bet is to load headers in small groups, deleting the old and
unwanted stuff.
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