Re: [Pan-users] suggestions for large groups

[Steven Ellis]

> jef wrote:
>
>> meaty wrote:
>>
>>> My swap space is 550 megs. My system ram is 512 megs. I have no
>>> problem loading the largest of binary groups even while loading 3
>>> other groups simultaniously (Pan 0.14.0).
>>
>>
>>
>>     Define "largest" - are you talking over 1 million headers per
>> group? I have system swap of 1GB, RAM is 512MB and 0.14.2 becomes
>> useless when loading that many headers.
>>
>>     jef
>
> Easily over a million when unjoined.  I just downloaded half a million
> articles in control.cancel in under ten seconds. I could never even
> download that many headers in Forte Agent for Windows 32 bits.  What
> group (s) are you talking about?  And what server do you use?  If you
> don't want to reveal in public, email me in private.

I thought this was a problem with
a) filters, and
b) marking articles as read.

I don't have a problem with the download process, but if I have over
200,000 headers in alt.binaries.multimedia it screws my machine for 4-5
minutes when I "Make all as read"

Steve