On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:42:02AM -0400, 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.
Thanks. How do I get really old binary posts instead of the newer ones? Is that possible? It seems like the only way is to get all of them. :( -- "After World War III, the ants will still be around." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | and http://aqfl.net (temporarily down again) \ _ / E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
