Re: [Pan-users] Re: reducing memory usage

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On Sunday 27 August 2006 06:46, Charles Kerr wrote:
> 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 finishes downloading the headers.  Is there any way I
> > can limit pan's resource consumption or limit the number of headers it
> > downloads when opening a new group?
>
> In 0.109, I'm able to get 265,000 headers from giganews
> with very little trouble.  Pan eats about 175MB and the
> download is pretty quick.
>
> When you say latest beta, are you referring to 0.14.2.9x?
>
> Charles
>
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Charles,

you should try the alt.binaries.multimedia.startrek group on giganews, some 6M 
headers. That's a real challenge !! :-)

C