Am Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:46:20 -0500 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 10/10/2011 01:05 AM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: >> Am 10.10.2011 05:15, schrieb Ron Johnson: >>> On 10/09/2011 09:58 PM, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: >>>> Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@...> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Having to upgrade to Ubuntu Maverick because Natty sucks, I decided >>>>> to also migrate to 64 bits now that Adobe has released a 64 bit >>>>> Flash. >>>>> >>>>> One of the first things that I did was try out Pan on a binary >>>>> group. >>>>> >>>>> Many hours later, it had fetched 6 weeks of headers and consumed >>>>> 6.8GB of RAM. The 2+ years of data in Giganews would require 123GB >>>>> of RAM. >>>>> >>>>> :( >>>>> >>>>> >>>> At risk of exposing myself as a Known Idiot... is this 64-bit >>>> performance different from 32-bit performance, and can you 'prove' >>>> it? ;-) >>>> >>>> >>> What do you mean by "different performance"? >>> >>> It's a fact that 32-bit Pan runs out of *process* address space at >>> around 2GB. 64-bit Pan doesn't technically have that problem, but >>> effectively it does, although it does for all practical intents. >>> >>>> As for the multi-bazillion-header binary groups... is there *any* >>>> 'old style' >>>> newsreader capable of downloading all their headers? By 'old style' I >>>> mean newsreaders intended to include conversation. Giganews, for one, >>>> would seem to me to make this nearly impossible due to their vast >>>> retention span. >>>> >>>> >>> Any "straight to file" news reader could do it, given the time to d/l >>> all the headers. >>> >>> Pan's fatal binary group flaw is that it stores all the headers in >>> memory before writing them out to disk. >>> >> Now I see again. That's really tragic. Perhaps I'll find the time for a >> solution. >> >> > That would be *great*. I hope the code is modular and isolated enough > that only low level code needs to be changed.
Not really, but I'll think of something... _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
