Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.11.3 is eating all my RAM

[Charles Kerr]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:28:54PM -0700, Steven Ellis wrote:
> Used gtop to pull up the resident memory usage as I
> couldn't work out why a box with a lot of ram was
> thrashing.
> 
> There were 5 Pan processes consuming a total of 216Mb
> of RAM. No I know I have a few big groups open
> (akl.binaries.multimedia.scifi) and two download
> threads running, but this is a LOT..
> 
> Also its not like this copy of PAN has been running
> for days on end. Its been up about 24 hrs at most.
> 
> Any ideas what is going on?


>From http://pan.rebelbase.com/faq/#Troubleshooting4:

5.5. Pan Has 8 Processes, Each Using 40 Meg! That's 320 Meg!

     These are each threads sharing the same memory,
     so it's only 40 Meg, despite what top says.