Re: [Pan-users] speed of "Get new articles"

[Gert]

Charles Kerr (address@hidden) wrote:
> > > What does the status bar at the bottom say?
> > Nothing at all, the GUI won't update.
> What did it last say?

"Loading article {x} of {x}" (article count was about 12000).

> Hmm, it's a start, but doesn't give much on its own, sorry.
> There are two things we could try:
> 
> (1) get backtraces on all threads every minute or so, or

Of _all_ threads ... some copy past work will be required ;)

> (2) run with --debug and watch what scrolls by in the console during
>     these long periods of Pan freezing.  
> 
> The second is probably the faster choice....

Ok, did that. It produced a 7.5 Mb logfile ;) [want me to mail it ?],
and the messages scrolling by between gui freeze, and the new "Sorting
messages" status-bar-entry was:
---
(articlelist.c:2187:articlelist_new_inc_nolock():articlelist_new_inc_nolock)(thread
 0x8168a90)(time 19:19:13)(depth   1) TRACE: - articlelist_new_inc_nolock^M
(articlelist.c:2176:articlelist_new_inc_nolock():articlelist_new_inc_nolock)(thread
 0x8168a90)(time 19:19:13)(depth   2) TRACE: + articlelist_new_inc_nolock^M
---
Got a couple thousand of those.

Gert
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