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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: large *Gnus Backlog* buffer
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Hello all,

I tend to start up emacs and keep it running, with gnus, for days if not
weeks.  Today, I checked out Emacs's memory usage (M-x memory-usage RET)
and found that I have a ~ *Gnus Backlog*~ buffer that is >70MB in
size.  Not a real worry on most of my systems but I'm curious:

1. what function does this buffer have in gnus?
2. can this be pruned back (manually or otherwise)?

thank you,
eric

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid