On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > David Shochat <shoch...@yahoo.com> posted > gqk1c4$ej...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:17:40 > +0000: > >> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:08:02 +1100, The GUIGuy wrote: >> >>> I'd been using Pan for about a year, but it has progressively become >>> more and more unusable. >>> >>> Now if I get it to download the latest headers from a group and if >>> there are more than 500 or so headers, Pan starts thrashing the hard >>> disk, locking up resources and generally making the PC unusable. >>> >>> As an experiment I let it run and it was still doing its stuff about >>> three hours later. >>> >>> Is this a known issue or am I on my lonesome here? >>> >> It might be. I have a somewhat similar problem, but only when I'm >> running the GNOME desktop. If you can try running either XFCE or KDE, or >> anything else that's not GNOME, see if that makes the problem go away >> (as it does for me). If that doesn't help, it is probably not the same >> thing. You said "locking up resources". In my case, top shows pan using >> a high percentage of the CPU and sometimes a lot of memory, and in bad >> cases, it has gone on for hours. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, by the way. > > Yes, that's the problem case that has been reported, Ubuntu and possibly > Debian, newer versions, running GNOME desktop, which is ironic since pan > is a gtk app with bugzilla hosted by GNOME. > > My guess has been some library clash and/or a patch Ubuntu (Debian?) runs > that kills pan performance on GNOME. On the other desktops it seems to > work fine, and on other distributions there's no reports of the problem > either. <shrug> > > -- > 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 >
Try to compile from the unpatched source code. You shouldn't have to run make install, but you can run the Pan binary from the compiled directory. Gnome uses a file monitoring daemon for Nautilus (Fam, Gamin, something). Try disabling that, and/or beagle if it's running. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
