Gee I was under the assumpption the hidden files and folders in
/home/username/.pan would have been the stored headers and such. And that
would have been the disk access seen when opening a folder
On Sunday 12 August 2001 17:02, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> PAN seems to hold the message headers in RAM to do sorts and such.
>
> With 250,000+ message groups this can quickly max out RAM and it swaps
> like crazy...
>
> BTW: One of the great things about PAN (at least to me) is that it CAN
> deal with this many group headers!!!
>
> Other Winblows programs including FreeAgent, crap out at 10,000
> messages...
>
> Pan has been so effective, that I've set up a system just to run it.
>
> Great stuff..
>
> -JMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of etharp
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 5:52 PM
> To: Jose M. Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Richie de Almeida';
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 "slow"?????
>
>
> I ain't no PAN ex-spurt either, but I would have thought that was mostly
> disk
> readding the files for the info in the cache and the stuff already wrote
> to
> the drive, not swap action.
>
> On Saturday 11 August 2001 16:46, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> > Well running PAN shoots your theory...
> >
> > 2-3 250,000 message newgroups and your system will be swapping for all
> >
> > it's worth...
> >
> > And it's only a client...
> >
> > -JMS
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar
> > Dhanapalan
> > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 2:15 PM
> > To: Richie de Almeida; etharp; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 "slow"?????
> >
> >
> > As I mentioned below, you would only need over 256MB of RAM if you're
> > doing something very memory-intensive, like complex graphics or
> > multimedia work.
> > For most uses, 256MB is more than enough. If you find that your swap
>
> is
>
> > full
> > while doing ordinary desktop work, something is wrong.
