On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:16, Charles Kerr wrote: > cvs4me wrote: > > you should try the alt.binaries.multimedia.startrek group > > on giganews, some 6M headers. That's a real challenge !! > > Indeed it is. Are there many newsgroups that busy? :) > > Yesterday I gave 0.110 the a.b.m.startrek challenge -- it failed. > The 'get headers' task was doing things that were find for regular > groups, even large groups, but once you get up past 1,000,000 headers > the overhead snowballed. > > I gave bugzilla a longish brain dump on the things I found wrong. > See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353334 for more info. > > More importantly, it also has a patch to fix this in 0.111. I tested > the patch against both 0.110 and 0.14.9x CVS, and the patch won. > memory comparisons are also included in the bug report. > > cheers, > Charles > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
Charles, That patch of yours does the trick! Thank you very much! I applied it to 0.110 and lo and behold! pan loads abm.startrek like a charm. top reports about 422M vritual mem size. Average CPU load was very low 5% or so on an Ahtlon XP 2000+ box. Thanks again! C _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
