[Pan-users] Pan Memory usage options?

[Kelly, Mark]

Pan is by far my favorite newsreader but the memory usage is driving me
crazy.

I was playing around trying to find groups with 1 million plus articles to
measure some memory usage.  Well I was exploring one with 1.4 million and
here's a dump from TOP sorted by memory usage.  This is right after I had
hit "get new articles" when I already had 1.1 million existing articles.

CPU0 states:   9.4% user   0.5% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  89.0%
idle
CPU1 states:   6.3% user   5.4% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  87.1%
idle
Mem:  1030248k av, 1021660k used,    8588k free,       0k shrd,    1668k
buff
                    675688k actv,  144316k in_d,   22148k in_c
Swap:  939792k av,  581952k used,  357840k free                   15196k
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
28845 root      15   0 1070M 765M  1292 S    13.3 76.0   4:13   0 pan

I got tired of waiting on pan to come back to life because of the massive
swap file usage going on, so I killed the process shortly after.  Just glad
I upgraded this box to 1 Gig of RAM, but it looks like even that isn't near
enough.

How many other see this type of usage with huge article counts?