Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

[Ron Johnson]

On 03/29/2011 02:12 AM, Paul Crawford wrote:
> On 29/03/11 07:33, Ron Johnson wrote:
> <snip>
> > 5 hours...
> >
> > $ date && pan --no-gui headers:alt.binaries.dvd ; date
> > Mon Mar 28 20:25:33 CDT 2011
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> > what(): std::bad_alloc
> > Aborted
> > Tue Mar 29 01:27:17 CDT 2011
>
> That sounds like it ran out of memory.

Exactly.

>                                        Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit,
> and what are your machine's limits (RAM & swap space)?

It's 32-bit.  Running "top" clearly shows pan's memory usage (RES) 
growing and growing.  At about 3GB (a processes' address space in x86) 
it barfs.

> Of course it might be a bug/design flaw where a list grows
> larger/quicker than it really needs to for the element size & number of
> elements.

Not a bug per se, but a consequence of the design decision to fetch all 
of a group's headers into RAM before flushing them to disk.  Never 
occurred to them that a News provider would retain all messages.

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