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

[Keith Richie]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Shochat <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:17:40
> +0000:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that's the problem case that has been reported, Ubuntu and possibly
> Debian, newer versions, running GNOME desktop, which is ironic since pan
> is a gtk app with bugzilla hosted by GNOME.
>
> My guess has been some library clash and/or a patch Ubuntu (Debian?) runs
> that kills pan performance on GNOME.  On the other desktops it seems to
> work fine, and on other distributions there's no reports of the problem
> either. <shrug>
>
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Try to compile from the unpatched source code. You shouldn't have to
run make install, but you can run the Pan binary from the compiled
directory.

Gnome uses a file monitoring daemon for Nautilus (Fam, Gamin,
something). Try disabling that, and/or beagle if it's running.