Yeah that's where they are written to...
But while PAN is running it attempts to hold as much of the header list
as possible in RAM, to quicken sorts (which it does all the time.)
You can actually delete the file for a particular group, in the .pan
directory, while it's running. As soon as you attempt to exit PAN, the
file will get re-written from RAM.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: etharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 5:29 PM
To: Jose M. Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Richie de Almeida';
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] isn't mandrake 8 "slow"?????
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.
