Re: [Pan-users] speed of "Get new articles"

[Gert]

John Morris (address@hidden) wrote:
> 
> You know, I have the same problem you describe.  When I download new headers 
> from a large group, it pauses for a really long time.  Sometimes, the gui 
> even stops responding, and like you there is no disk activity, and I have 
> plenty of memory (512 meg).  When it does this, I can kill Pan, and restart 
> it, and it immediately sorts and updates the new headers it already 
> downloaded really fast.

mmm, I used to kill pan too, remove all messages and get a new listing.
Never checked to see if it actually downloaded the new articles... If it
is as you describe, then it really is some bug... Perhaps it tries to
update the gui while doing this or something like that? I suspect that
is the reason maring 300.000 messages as `read' also taks 5 minutes...

> It eventually got so bad that I deleted all of my cached article headers, and 
> let it start from scratch.  It seems to work much better now, so perhaps I 
> had some corruption in the cached articles.  You should try to dump yours as 
> well and see if that helps.

Anyway, killing the client is a workaround, not a solution ;)

> I just deleted .pan/servername/*

The .dat file is 55Mb for this newsgroup alone, and I hate to waste
pointless traffice that can be prevented (and it takes about 30 minutes
to actually _download_ all the header info from my subscribed groups ;)

> John

Gert
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