Re: [Pan-users] Latest pan 100% CPU usage

[Duncan]

Bob posted on Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:13:07 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:04:28 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 
>> On 04/23/2013 12:57 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>>>     It is indeed. Sorry I didn't catch it. Should be 17.
>> 
>> Oh, good!  For those of you who don't follow such things, only the two
>> most recent versions of Fedora Linux are supported[1] and the most
>> recent release is Fedora 18, meaning that Fedora 7 reached End of Life
>> at least four years ago.  F 17, however, will be supported until a
>> little after 19 comes out.
>> 
>> [1]That means no updates for any reason, including security.
> 
> Same problem here, only am running Mint 13 Maya AMD-64 with 0.139. Seems
> to depend on the number of headers in a group.  I am only subscribed to
> 7 newsgroups via the new and renamed Forte internet news servers which
> claim 1500 days retention for binary groups.
> 
> Seems to work fine for anything less than around 200,000 articles,
> anything greater will cause pan to lock up, the system temp to quickly
> rise above 105 F. and the complete system to lock.
> 
> Watching via system monitor shows Core 0 running at 100%
> Usually a "Force-Quit" will kill the over-running core.
> 
> Even after that I cannot bring Pan back to life without restarting the
> system. I CAN start it via Cli, but it will soon do the same thing over
> again.  Then, I must restart.

The last time people were reporting 100% cpu, it was traced to some sort 
of conflict with the gnome accessibility stuff.  As I don't run gnome 
I've never seen the problem, so this is all second hand to me, but the 
solution back then was to turn off whatever the gnome accessibility 
daemon was called (a11y ring a bell?), before trying to run pan.

I had thought someone finally traced down that problem using gdb and a 
bugfix had been committed, but it can't hurt to see if it's running and 
try turning it off if so, and see if that fixes pan.

FWIW, I've never had a similar problem here, running pan under kde...

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