Bob,

You didn't say how Agent is configured, so I gotta ask.... <grin>
Which hard/logical drive is Agent using to store it's cache file, and how
much free space does THAT drive have?

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]>

> Good Morning,
>
> A puzzling problem has begun to occur in my Agent newsreader.
>
> Up until the last two weeks Agent has worked great for me, now
> using version 1.6.  In the past I could click on download all messages
> in a newsgroup and even if the number was 100,000+ it would download
> all the headers.  Now, it locks during the download of headers if the
> amount is over a couple thousand, 5,000 new headers will definitely
> lock it up.  I have never seen this problem before and your advice
> would be appreciated.
>
> The issue is not system resources, here is the configuration of
> the computer:
>
> PII-450  ASUS P2B motherboard
> 192mg SDRam
> (3) HD   9gig Seagate SCSI cheetah / 2- 8gig WD UDMA Drives
> Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card
> USR 56k ISA voice modem
> ATI Rage 128 32mg video
> 3Com 10/100TX NIC
> SB 128 PCI sound card
> Windows98SE
>
> The C drive has 6gigs of free space for Temporary files, and the
> recycle bin is set to reserve 10%.

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