Re: [Pan-users] Pan's memory usage...

[Charles Kerr]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Hi list...
> 
> We probably all know that pan can eat quite large amounts of memory when
> loading large groups... I was just reading a group with 450000+ headers
> and the memory usage of pan went to about 350+ MB.
> 
> Are there any plans/ideas to try and reduce pan's memory usage, or it
> this unavoidable on these large groups.

Last night I put in the often-requested "purge articles older than N days"
feature into Edit|Preferences|Behavior.  The default is 14 days.
Unless you've got a *REALLY* good server, I doubt articles older than
that are still on the server.