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

[Csv4Me2]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:16, Charles Kerr wrote:
> cvs4me wrote:
> > you should try the alt.binaries.multimedia.startrek group
> > on giganews, some 6M headers. That's a real challenge !!
>
> Indeed it is.  Are there many newsgroups that busy? :)
>
> Yesterday I gave 0.110 the a.b.m.startrek challenge -- it failed.
> The 'get headers' task was doing things that were find for regular
> groups, even large groups, but once you get up past 1,000,000 headers
> the overhead snowballed.
>
> I gave bugzilla a longish brain dump on the things I found wrong.
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353334 for more info.
>
> More importantly, it also has a patch to fix this in 0.111.  I tested
> the patch against both 0.110 and 0.14.9x CVS, and the patch won.
> memory comparisons are also included in the bug report.
>
> cheers,
> Charles
>
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Charles,

That patch of yours does the trick! Thank you very much!

I applied it to 0.110 and lo and behold! pan loads abm.startrek like a charm.
top reports about 422M vritual mem size. Average CPU load was very low 5% or 
so on an Ahtlon XP 2000+ box.

Thanks again!

C