Re: [Pan-users] 0.14.0 Slow on large group

[frizop]

	I've suggested this several times. If you ever take a look at a windows 
News reader called "Xnews" it does just that, and its a big help for 
large groups.

Lee Reynolds wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know anything about the internal handling of headers for a large
> group like this, but I've seen the same degradation with groups with
> anything over 200,000 headers.  
>
> In thinking about this problem, what about splitting the headers into
> chunks of 50,000 to sort them, and then take the sorted headers and
> merge them.  This should allow you to thread the individual sorts as
> they were read, and merging pre-sorted headers should be fairly linear. 
>
> Thanks!
> Lee R
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 11:39, T-Bone wrote:
>
> > I have been using Pan for a while now.  I have a binary group that has
> > grown quite large of late.  Currently the total article count for this
> > group is at 1008007.  I always save loading and looking at this group
> > for when I have something other to do than sit at the machine and stare
> > at a churning app.  It takes a VERY long time to load ,display or
> > generally work with this group.  Is anything being done to either speed
> > up handling of very large groups?  At the very least, maybe an option to
> > manually expire articles over a certain age?  Other than this behavior,
> > I love Pan.  If I'm missing something in the way I have my app
> > configured, let me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert Stults
> >
> >
> >
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