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Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers?
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Phillip Pi |
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Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers? |
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Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:10:20 -0700 |
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:42:02AM -0400, jef_e wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of headers
> >from a newsgroup?
>
> It's not you. It's been discussed a lot in the past, and they way pan
> deals with things just isn't scalable to the level that many premium
> news providers now go with retention.
>
> >I
> >tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from alt.binaries.hdtv
> >newsgroup. My computer choked at about 1,900,000 headers when I came back
> >from a 30 minutes break.
>
> I recently upgraded to 2GB of RAM, and find that I can handle just a bit
> over 2.2 million before things get wacky. (When I only had 512MB, it was
> maybe 500,000)
>
>
> HDD light was spinning, m
> >KDE v3.3.4 was frozen and not responsive. I had to kill Pan via SSH. Of
> >course that was slow as heck too. I eventually to kill X server because
> >stuff was broken.
>
> Just killing pan should be enough, it just takes a while for things to
> settle down.
>
>
> >I am using an Athlon XP 2200+ with 1 GB of RAM. Isn't that enough or is
> >Pan not optimized for this big number of headers?
>
> Last I heard, the Pan team is working a new database backend that will
> clear up this problem. Take a look at the files in ~/.pan/<your news
> server> to see why things get so bogged down. Right now, my file for
> alt.binaries.multimedia is a tad over 1 GB in size :)
>
> You best bet is to load headers in small groups, deleting the old and
> unwanted stuff.
Thanks. How do I get really old binary posts instead of the newer ones? Is
that possible? It seems like the only way is to get all of them. :(
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