[Pan-users] Re: Pan brings PC to a standstill

[David Shochat]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:08:02 +1100, The GUIGuy wrote:

> I'd been using Pan for about a year, but it has progressively become
> more and more unusable.
> 
> Now if I get it to download the latest headers from a group and if there
> are more than 500 or so headers, Pan starts thrashing the hard disk,
> locking up resources and generally making the PC unusable.
> 
> As an experiment I let it run and it was still doing its stuff about
> three hours later.
> 
> Is this a known issue or am I on my lonesome here?
> 
It might be. I have a somewhat similar problem, but only when I'm running 
the GNOME desktop. If you can try running either XFCE or KDE, or anything 
else that's not GNOME, see if that makes the problem go away (as it does 
for me). If that doesn't help, it is probably not the same thing. You 
said "locking up resources". In my case, top shows pan using a high 
percentage of the CPU and sometimes a lot of memory, and in bad cases, it 
has gone on for hours. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, by the way.
-- David