RE: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups

[Erik]

> I was wondering if anyone could give some tips for using Pan with large
> binary groups. I have a gig of memory in my machine, and Pan's cache is
> set to a gig as well. However, loading a newsgroup with about 2 million
> headers ends up causing Pan to start thrashing swap space about 2/3 of the
> way through loading the group, or downloading that many new headers. The 
> machine slows down to a crawl and the rest of the (down)load takes 
> excessively long.

This is because you have 1 gig of cache. Lower it to a reasonable
amount and try again. 10 MB here and no high memory usage, swapping,
etc, even on machines with 128-256MB of RAM.

-- 
Erik