Re: [Pan-users] PAN best newsreader under Linux but ...

[Duncan]

On Tue 31 Dec 2002 05:37, Stuart Pettie posted as excerpted below:
> Thanks to Duncan for reply.
>
> I am using 0.13.2 on Mandrake

Cool!  Mdk here as well (although I'm running Mdk 9.1 cooker and the latest or 
right now next to the latest since I haven't upgraded to PAN 0.13.3 yet).  
I'm running urpmi.update for the day right now, to be followed by urpmi 
--auto-select to catch everything I have installed back up with the mirrors.  
I do that at least twice a week, so I'm certainly running fresh betas, 
although I haven't gotten brave enough to be poking around CVSs much and 
running alphas.

> I am downloading large binaries, MPGs for VCD & SVCD rips.
> I will retry later with the cache size increased to 2Gb[]
>
> I am sure it is a a function of cache size being reached with the default
> 10Mb limit []

YIKES!  I'd forgotten it was that small by default, as I've been running at 
least the 1G max that it used to allow since 'bout time I first started w/ 
PAN.  10M on mpgs...  yes... I'd DEFINITELY say it's the cache!  <g>  That 
might be fine for text groups, and maybe if emptied at every close, for slow 
pix groups or ones you pick and choose only a few posts in, but for any sort 
of decent sized multi-part binary, mp3s even let alone mpgs, that's FAR to 
small.

-- 
Duncan
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