"Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:21:01 +0000:
>> Duncan, >> >> Does this bug look like the same issue you are having when downloading a >> large number of smaller attachments? >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353317 > > It was certainly part of it. However, the performance patches added to > 0.110 should eliminate the biggest problem. I haven't actually tested yet > as I just finished first-round processing the 24K of single-part messages > I downloaded the other day, last nite. It was that 24K messages download > that triggered the thread. Upon thinking about it, I'm not likely hit by that bug as much as most, due to the way I use pan. The bug as reported is that pan stops downloading while it is saving. I don't actually download and save in one shot, preferring to download to a large cache (currently set for 11 gig for my binary instance, on a dedicated partition, pan's default is 10 meg), then go offline to sort thru and either save or delete. Thus, all pan does here during the download phase is write the downloaded articles directly to cache, which will be far less disruptive in a single-threaded application such as pan then attempting a CPU intensive decode, and a second write to disk possibly to an entirely different part of the disk (therefore inducing local i/o latencies as the drive seeks between the save location and cache). I'd seen mentions of the bug a few times and always considered myself lucky not to have that particular issue to any measurable degree. Now I know why. As it was in 0.109, however, just writing to the cache was bad enough. 0.110 seems much more reasonable in that (tho I've not yet tested it in small binaries, the thing that prompted this thread, tho initially that was just creating the task list thus the title, but it was as bad downloading and emptying the task list). I'd hate to see how bad it might have gotten actually decoding and saving at the same time! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
