Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers?

[Phillip Pi]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:21:31AM -0700, John Wendel wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of headers 
> >from a newsgroup? I tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from 
> >alt.binaries.hdtv newsgroup. My computer choked at about 1,900,000 headers 
> >when I came back from a 30 minutes break. HDD light was spinning, m KDE 
> >v3.3.4 was frozen and not responsive. I had to kill Pan via SSH. Of course 
> >that was slow as heck too. I eventually to kill X server because stuff was 
> >broken.
> >
> >I am using an Athlon XP 2200+ with 1 GB of RAM. Isn't that enough or is 
> >Pan not optimized for this big number of headers?
> >
> >Thank you in advance. :)
> 
> 
> Known problem, mostly fixed in the CVS version.  Just run these commands 
> to build yourself a version that works (with a few random bugs).
> 
> >export CVSROOT=":pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/gnome"
> 
> >cvs login
> 
> >cvs -z3 checkout pan
> 
> >cd pan
> 
> >./autogen.sh
> 
> >make

Before I attempt to try it. Is the CVS version currently stable enough to
use? When is the next version coming out (estimate is fine)?
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