I use to use Pan quite a bit back in the day. I believe it is dumping the
headers to /tmp while it is downloading the headers. You can use something
like strace to watch it run if you are really curious.
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Derek Trotter <
expat.arizonan@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've been using Pan 0.139 for a few days and I noticed something. While
> it's downloading headers, none of the files in my .pan2 directory increase
> in size, nor are any new files added. When Pan is done downloading
> headers, it writes them to a file in the .pan2/groups directory. However
> it's also writing something to my home directory before anything turns up
> in .pan2/groups. I run df in my home directory (My home directory gets an
> entire 2TB disk.) and every minute or two it shows the free space
> decreasing. This happens when I have no web browsers, email clients or any
> other program running except for Pan. I'm curious where Pan puts this data
> before it's written to a file in .pan2/groups. Any ideas?
>
> Here's what I've seen.
>
> delboy@ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdd2 1922728752 1730809480 191902888 91% /home/delboy
> delboy@ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdd2 1922728752 1730809800 191902568 91% /home/delboy
>
> Thanks
>
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>
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