[Pan-users] Re: Can creating task list be optimized?

2006-08-26 Thread Charles Kerr
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:20:37 +, Duncan wrote: > I just saw how smoothly it was going with the big-post multi-part group, > and having just bought 6 months worth of newshosting, when I entered a > thousands of small-posts single-part group, I saw that money I just > spent on it going up in smok

[Pan-users] Re: reducing memory usage

2006-08-26 Thread Charles Kerr
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:41:57 -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: > I am running the latest pan beta. I have 256MB system RAM. I go to > open the group rec.craft.metalworking which has 200K messages. After > about 150K messages, pan has consumed all available memory and chugging > in swap. It never fi

[Pan-users] Feature Request: Posting Only / Disabled Servers

2006-08-26 Thread Jack Cuyler
Since many servers limit the total bytes transferred in a given month, it would be nice if Pan would allow a server to be marked as "disabled". That way, when the monthly limit is getting close, the user could manually stop Pan from using that server without having to delete the server altogether.

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Can creating task list be optimized?

2006-08-26 Thread Darren Albers
Duncan wrote: I just saw how smoothly it was going with the big-post multi-part group, and having just bought 6 months worth of newshosting, when I entered a thousands of small-posts single-part group, I saw that money I just spent on it going up in smoke, or more precisely, in bottlenecked CPU c

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:38:02AM +, Duncan wrote: > Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug > 2006 16:52:02 -0700: > > > Yeah, but the new one is limited to me. :( I wonder if I can compile the > > old Pan and keep it separated. Can both ve

[Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:52:02 -0700: > Yeah, but the new one is limited to me. :( I wonder if I can compile the > old Pan and keep it separated. Can both versions share the .newsrc > safely with Tin? If you have only a sing

[Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
Csv4Me2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:10:53 +0200: > As long as the current versions don't load the startrek group succesfully i > won't change versions. All new versions fail that simple test. The max size > of a succesfull group downloa

[Pan-users] Re: Can creating task list be optimized?

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:31:22 -0400: > Duncan wrote: >> Try this with 0.109. >> >> Go to a group with many single-part binaries, say a picture group, a few >> tens of thousands of posts. Here, I tried one with 23,820 unread po

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread jef_e
Csv4Me2 wrote: > As long as the current versions don't load the startrek group succesfully i > won't change versions. All new versions fail that simple test. The max size > of a succesfull group download seem to depend solely on the available amount > of system RAM. As soon as pan (0.1xx) caus

Re: [Pan-users] Can creating task list be optimized?

2006-08-26 Thread Darren
Duncan wrote: > Try this with 0.109. > > Go to a group with many single-part binaries, say a picture group, a few > tens of thousands of posts. Here, I tried one with 23,820 unread posts > according to pan, plus some downloaded/read already. > > Select-all headers and try to download. > > Her

[Pan-users] Can creating task list be optimized?

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
Try this with 0.109. Go to a group with many single-part binaries, say a picture group, a few tens of thousands of posts. Here, I tried one with 23,820 unread posts according to pan, plus some downloaded/read already. Select-all headers and try to download. Here, pan sits for over an hour, figu

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Csv4Me2
Yea, I know. I'm running the last CVS version for ages now, so i probably misquoted the version number. As long as the current versions don't load the startrek group succesfully i won't change versions. All new versions fail that simple test. The max size of a succesfull group download seem to

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:40:54PM -0400, jef_e wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind - 0.14.2.91 wasn't the last version of the old > series available. There was a 0.14.2.92, and a version in CVS that was > numbered 0.14.90 Even though the readme's still state 0.14.2.92, the > "About" dialog of th

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Csv4Me2
Your setup's definitely more recent then mine! No idea at all what the consequences are. I'm out of options. Goodluck, C ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread jef_e
One thing to keep in mind - 0.14.2.91 wasn't the last version of the old series available. There was a 0.14.2.92, and a version in CVS that was numbered 0.14.90 Even though the readme's still state 0.14.2.92, the "About" dialog of this CVS version says 0.14.90. I was using this version up until a

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
> > > > > > > > server, it appears that specific threads or something is hard > > > > > > > > crashing my X server with a black screen and locked video card > > > > > > > > in KDE v3.5 (Gnome didn't crash, but showed corrupted texts) > > > > > > > > with Pan v0.14.2.9 in this specific binary newsgr

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Csv4Me2
On Sunday 27 August 2006 01:06, Phillip Pi wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:54:01AM +0200, Csv4Me2 wrote: > > On Saturday 26 August 2006 23:51, Phillip Pi wrote: > > > > > > > server, it appears that specific threads or something is hard > > > > > > > crashing my X server with a black screen and

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:54:01AM +0200, Csv4Me2 wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2006 23:51, Phillip Pi wrote: > > > > > > server, it appears that specific threads or something is hard > > > > > > crashing my X server with a black screen and locked video card in > > > > > > KDE v3.5 (Gnome didn't c

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Csv4Me2
On Saturday 26 August 2006 23:51, Phillip Pi wrote: > > > > > server, it appears that specific threads or something is hard > > > > > crashing my X server with a black screen and locked video card in > > > > > KDE v3.5 (Gnome didn't crash, but showed corrupted texts) with Pan > > > > > v0.14.2.9 in

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Comcast/SUSE 10.1 segfault resolved.

2006-08-26 Thread David Shochat
walt wrote: If you still have the old home directory maybe you could save the .pan2 directory somewhere safe, and then try using it again in a few months to see if future versions of pan still crash. That's the sort of trick that hackers use to find vulnerable machines, or so I've read. Hmm.

[Pan-users] Re: Comcast/SUSE 10.1 segfault resolved.

2006-08-26 Thread walt
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:33:57 -0400, David Shochat wrote: > Fixed the problem by going to a brand new, empty, home directory. I > think the many dotfiles and "dotdirs" created by gnome, gtk and friends > must have a way of going bad with time. Heh. The gnome folks release early, release often,

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
> > > > server, it appears that specific threads or something is hard crashing > > > > my X server with a black screen and locked video card in KDE v3.5 > > > > (Gnome didn't crash, but showed corrupted texts) with Pan v0.14.2.9 in > > > > this specific binary newsgroup. > > > Hi all, > > I

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Csv4Me2
On Saturday 26 August 2006 18:34, Phillip Pi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:09:14AM +, Duncan wrote: > > Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug > > > > 2006 02:02:10 -0700: > > > In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on news.gig

[Pan-users] Comcast/SUSE 10.1 segfault resolved.

2006-08-26 Thread David Shochat
Fixed the problem by going to a brand new, empty, home directory. I think the many dotfiles and "dotdirs" created by gnome, gtk and friends must have a way of going bad with time. I would guess that it happened when I upgraded from SUSE 10.0 to 10.1. I updated bug 346588 and unless this is all a

[Pan-users] Re: Quirks with Pan 0.109

2006-08-26 Thread Benjamin Esham
Benjamin Esham wrote: The regex used to find *bolded* and /italicized/ text can be fooled pretty easily; for example, typing /usr/local puts "usr" in italics. FWIW, this is now bug 353018: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353018 Cheers, -- Benjamin D. Esham [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
FYI. I ran strace and pan --debug separately in case they help you, Pan developers. http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/temp/Pan-straceANDdebug.zip (will be deleted eventually).. On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:04:49PM -0700, Phillip Pi wrote: > > > NVIDIA poster told me to collect logs in my NVIDIA forum

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
> > NVIDIA poster told me to collect logs in my NVIDIA forum thread. I gathered > > the newsgroup thread > > datas: > > > > The newsgroup threads (not even reading a thread -- just the list) > > that crashes are (copied and pasted): > > Subject: > > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cablebox_->DVD._Later_DVD->MP4_

[Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:25 -0700: > NVIDIA poster told me to collect logs in my NVIDIA forum thread. I gathered > the newsgroup thread > datas: > > The newsgroup threads (not even reading a thread -- just the list) > t

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 09:34:19AM -0700, Phillip Pi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:09:14AM +, Duncan wrote: > > Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug > > 2006 02:02:10 -0700: > > > > > In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:09:14AM +, Duncan wrote: > Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug > 2006 02:02:10 -0700: > > > In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on news.giganews.com server, > > it appears that specific threads or somet

Re: [Pan-users] reducing memory usage

2006-08-26 Thread Darren
Ryan Underwood wrote: > I am running the latest pan beta. I have 256MB system RAM. I go to > open the group rec.craft.metalworking which has 200K messages. After > about 150K messages, pan has consumed all available memory and chugging > in swap. It never finishes downloading the headers. Is t

[Pan-users] reducing memory usage

2006-08-26 Thread Ryan Underwood
I am running the latest pan beta. I have 256MB system RAM. I go to open the group rec.craft.metalworking which has 200K messages. After about 150K messages, pan has consumed all available memory and chugging in swap. It never finishes downloading the headers. Is there any way I can limit pan'

[Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:02:10 -0700: > In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on news.giganews.com server, > it appears that specific threads or something is hard crashing my X server > with a black screen and locked v

[Pan-users] Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

2006-08-26 Thread Phillip Pi
Hello! In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on news.giganews.com server, it appears that specific threads or something is hard crashing my X server with a black screen and locked video card in KDE v3.5 (Gnome didn't crash, but showed corrupted texts) with Pan v0.14.2.9 in this specific