On Fri, 11 May 2007 05:16:21 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Please don't top post. It messes up quote context. There's a reason > pan warns about it. Please respect that on the pan list, even if you > top post elsewhere.
Sorry, I usually do, and in fact with this particular reply, I originally nuked all the quotes and then thought better of it....That's what I get for using the e-mail interface rather than the gmane interface. ;-) > Old-pan was fully multithreaded. This increased performance some and > [...] Thanks for this great explanation of the differences between old and new pan - that really helps. > As for this new issue, bottlenecking on loading a group... > > * If you have download new headers when entering group set, you'll see > more of a slowdown. Try turning that off and triggering your header > downloads only manually. That should help. Not turned on - I have it set to pull new headers at startup, otherwise just when I hit Shift+A (still getting used to that instead of CTRL+SHIFT +U). > * pan now message-threads dynamically as it gets headers, [...] OK, that explains why with a large number of headers there was a bit of a slowdown upon entering the group. Now that I've pruned back the headers (one group in particular has about 650,000 messages in it and was clearly showing the issue) > * As mentioned above, I'm not been following the decode-and-save multi- > threading very closely, as I don't have the issue the way I do things, > but I'm not sure if it has been merged into trunk or is still being > tested outside of trunk. If it hasn't been merged to trunk yet, you'll > see slowdowns during decode and save, and thus be able to avoid them by > using my technique of downloading to cache first (while working on > something else, or sleeping/working/shopping/whatever), then coming back > when everything's in local cache to do your actual sorting and saving of > attachments to disk. You'll need to increase your cache size, but I > cover that in other posts. I use pan primarily for reading text-only newsgroups, so decode-and-save isn't an issue for me. Jim _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
