* Memory exhausted when viewing HTML messages
@ 2014-09-03 7:27 Christoph Groth
2014-09-03 16:09 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-03 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Hey,
I'm using Gnus 5.13 with Emacs 24.4.50. When mm-text-html-renderer is set to its default value shr, I often get the messasge “Memory exhausted--use C-x s then exit and restart Emacs” when opening some HTML messages. Is this issue known? If not, any suggestions how to debug it?
As a workaround, I set mm-text-html-renderer to gnus-w3m.
Christoph
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* Re: Memory exhausted when viewing HTML messages
2014-09-03 7:27 Memory exhausted when viewing HTML messages Christoph Groth
@ 2014-09-03 16:09 ` Adam Sjøgren
2014-09-03 20:50 ` Christoph Groth
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2014-09-03 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:
> I'm using Gnus 5.13 with Emacs 24.4.50. When mm-text-html-renderer is
> set to its default value shr, I often get the messasge “Memory
> exhausted--use C-x s then exit and restart Emacs” when opening some
> HTML messages. Is this issue known? If not, any suggestions how to
> debug it?
I haven't heard it mentioned before.
I guess an example of an email where this happens would help debugging
it - if you have one without any sensitive information that you can
share?
For getting a clue about what happens, maybe M-x toggle-debug-on-quit
and then hitting C-g while Emacs is working on exhausting memory might
give an interesting trace?
Best regards,
Adam
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* Re: Memory exhausted when viewing HTML messages
2014-09-03 16:09 ` Adam Sjøgren
@ 2014-09-03 20:50 ` Christoph Groth
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From: Christoph Groth @ 2014-09-03 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:
>
>> I'm using Gnus 5.13 with Emacs 24.4.50. When
>> mm-text-html-renderer is
>> set to its default value shr, I often get the messasge “Memory
>> exhausted--use C-x s then exit and restart Emacs” when opening
>> some
>> HTML messages. Is this issue known? If not, any suggestions how
>> to
>> debug it?
>
> I haven't heard it mentioned before.
>
> I guess an example of an email where this happens would help
> debugging
> it - if you have one without any sensitive information that you
> can
> share?
I tried and couldn’t reproduce the problem using “emacs -q”, so
lacking
other tools I turned to bisecting my ~/.emacs. It turned out that
the
problem is triggered by me setting fill-column to
most-positive-fixnum
in gnus-article-mode-hook.
“shr” seems to allocate buffers that are proportional to
fill-column.
I set fill-column to infinity in a function that also enables
visual-line-mode, adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode and
variable-pitch-mode.
This allows to use “W w” (gnus-article-fill-cited-article) to wash
away
hard line breaks from an article so that the text reflows
nicely. (I
happen to like this – consider how œ and æ look with a fixed-width
font.)
Christoph
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