Re: Xnews out of memory problem


thanatoid wrote:

Notwithstanding that I just asked this question, again, WHAT THE
*** does ANYONE DO with ten million headers, let alone WHY
WOULD ANYONE STORE THEM?

To be fair, the OP didn't say he wanted to store them, just that all
the headers he needed to download numbered in the area of 10 million.
He didn't say if that was just one group or all the groups he vists
combined. Since some of the higher traffic binary groups easily get
several hundred thousand a day, one such group that he hasn't visted
for a couple of weeks (giganews retatains 50-60 days in binary groups)
could probably accumilate that many with ease. It's best to take them
in chunks that your system can handle (this could be as little as
thousands at a time on low end systems with little memory to hundreds
of thousands at a time on higher end systems with plenty of memory) and
discarding all the ones that you are not interest in before DLing the
next chunk.

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