Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

[mick]

Is the PC choking at the downloading of the headers stage?
Or
Is it choking once all the headers are downloaded and you are trawling
through that group?

Forgive my ignorance but I thought a filter can only be set once a header is
downloaded.

I had a similar situation on a non binary group where once all the thousands
of headers had been downloaded I set a filter to ignore certain posters and
from then on everything has run smoothly.

If the PC is choking in the first instance, what you really want is not to
download the header in the first place.

More knowledgeable people here will no doubt have a better answer, one I
would like to know as well.

Mick.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pan-users [mailto:address@hidden On
Behalf Of Dave
Sent: 22 January 2017 20:26
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

Is there any way at all to get Pan to filter and DELETE posts on sight?

There's a binaries group currently being swamped by very, very large numbers
of post.  So many that Pan and the OS is not reacting well to a group with a
couple million posts in it.  ie all RAM used up (almost never happens on my
8GB PC) and swap getting thrashed to the extent that the PC almost grinds to
a halt despite there being plenty of CPU power spare.

On at least one occasion, the memory/page management choked and
crashed/reboot the PC and that's a very unusual thing to happen on FreeBSD!

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