Am Mittwoch, den 06.07.2016, 17:08 +0000 schrieb Duncan: > Heinz Mezera posted on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:09:26 +0200 as excerpted: > > > > > a detailed answer as ususal! > > > > Forgive me if I do not follow standard answering methods and > > summerize > > here: > > > > Pan takes approx. 10 minutes to start, > > ls -lh newsrc-1 --> 567M (a manual edit would be an enormous task > > and > > I've _never_ done any scripting before) > > renamed article-cache directory and reduced cache size to 10 MB > > (from > > 100) > > only one news server less than a dozen groups subscribed (a few > > text, > > others binaries) > > my working style: read new headers, decide which ones might be of > > interest and save them to disk; I never go back to yesterdays or > > older > > articles I don't use scores (or I'm not aware off) > > > > Should I remove/rename .pan2 directory and start from scratch? > Well, what the newsrc tracks is read articles. If you rename or > remove > it, you'll get all articles on the server as unread, which might be a > bit > of an issue, but you'll still do far better than starting from > scratch > and having to reconfigure everything.
I renamed .pan2 and started from scratch; wasn't to difficult. Result is great. Pan's starting time went from 10 minutes down to 25 seconds; newsrc-1 size from ~560M to 3.2M kr Heinz _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
