Re: [Pan-users] pan for Windows crashes when reading large newsgroup

[Steve Davies]

On 19 October 2012 07:08, K Shen <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
> I have been using a 32 bit x86 Windows XP laptop with 2G of real memory up
> to 3-4 months ago, which was replaced by a 64 bit x86-64 Windows 7 laptop
> with 4G of real memory. This was about 1-2 months before I noticed the crash
> problem, and I don't know if this new configuration is important for the
> crashes (I have not seen the crashes on the old laptop).
>
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Just a very quick data-point... The Pan installer installs a 32-bit
binary. This is the only build environment that I have, so that's all
there is. I am not even sure if all of the relevant libraries can be
built 64 bit under the mingw environment. A 32 bit app will wun under
a 64-bit operating system, but gains none of the benefits.

As a result, Pan is limited to the memory addressable by a 32-bit
application, which is 2Gb under windows. (32 bits allows 4Gb to be
addressed, but 32 bit apps only get 2Gb for a number of reasons which
I would not explain well)

Hope that helps,
Steve