RE: [Pan-users] Re: clearing the cache

[Travis]

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Subject: [Pan-users] Re: clearing the cache

> "Travis" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 09
> Oct 2006 07:47:23 -0700: 
> 
>> I'm marking them as read.  The reason I asked is because if I don't
>> occassionally "Remove Messages" in OE which I still use for text
and
>> single part binaries it gets clogged up.  I don't know what "dir"
is,
>> I will assume it means directory.  I have the .exe and required
.dll
>> in my hard drive and just double click it to start Pan.  Do I ever
>> need to clear the cache in Pan?
> 
> Yes, dir is directory.  You shouldn't need to clear the cache
> in pan if you are just keeping it from getting clogged up, as
> pan's default cache is only 10 MB anyway, so it pretty much
> /has/ to get cleaning it right as at least with binary
> groups, it doesn't take a lot of posts to fill 10 MB!
> Therefore, I wouldn't worry about it at all, with new-pan.
> Of course with old-pan there were issues with memory scaling
> once one got more than a few thousand headers in a group, but
> that was headers not so much cache.
> 
> OTOH, if you are trying to keep your pr0n habit from snooping
> wife or mom (or now days jealous boyfriend =8^P), that's an
> entirely different beast, and what I thought you were asking
> about when you asked about clearing cache. That's why I
> mentioned headers. =8^)

No worries about what is on my computer.  
  ;-)

Is a larger cache advantageous?  How do I increase the size of my
cache if needed?

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Travis in Shoreline Washington