Leo List posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:17:52 +1100 as excerpted: > I'm running 64bit Ubuntu and when I start pan, the memory usage > increases regularly until it hits up to 98% if physical memory and about > 50% of swap; all up about 6GB. > > Is there a way of reducing/controlling this
Text groups or binaries? Do you have groups with over a million posts (including parts of posts which pan counts as one)? Especially Giganews is known to be problematic, due to their long retention. Once you get up over a million posts, scaling /does/ become an issue, tho pan handles it better than it used to (the scaling limit used to be 100k posts, but the rewrite with 0.90+ helped by using opportunistic string combining in many places, including the count-as-one-post thing mentioned above for subject strings, and in author strings, which tend to be massively duplicated as well). Now, pan handles a million posts /reasonably/ well, but has been observed to start having problems between two and ten million (tho I've seen reports of 16 million plus working, if you're patient and have the memory), depending on memory, number of groups, number of servers and whether they carry the same groups, etc. -- 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
