On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:01:10 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > For the last several days, Pan has been very slow to exit. The window > turns gray (a gnome thing, to tell you that the program's Very Busy) and > a dialog pops up asking if I want to force quit. If I cancel, it will > eventually close after several minutes.
Do you mean minutes literally, e.g. 120 seconds or more? What is your CPU usage during this interval? > At first, I thought it was a problem with newsrc. Checking, I found > that the list of articles for my main group was in several sections, so > I changed it to 0-N. This brought back the old "mark them all read when > you select the group" issue, but at least, I know what to do about that. > > Alas, the main issue hasn't changed. Looking in ~/.pan2, I find that > the article cache has over 3,000 entries and is several meg in size. All > this from two newsgroups, neither of which allows binaries. I suspect > that this is part of the problem, but can't find a way within pan to > clear the cache and don't want to do it by hand until I'm sure it's > safe. Suggestions? Yes, you can delete the article-cache directory completely and pan will just make a new one. When in doubt, I just rename a directory instead of deleting it, and then I can always put it back if something breaks. My .pan2/article-cache/ directory is 88MB in size at the moment, but that includes binary articles as well as text. There are some interesting variables in .pan2/preferences.xml that don't appear in pan's drop-down menus, including the max size of the article- cache directory, and whether you want to flush the cache on exit, etc. You might take a look there just for fun. Having said all this, my gut feeling is that the problem is elsewhere, like in the connection(s) to your news-server(s), for example. You might try starting pan from a terminal prompt with the --debug flag. Sometimes that will yield some helpful hints. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
