Re: Huge memory consumption on accessing large newsgroup

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> I found the other things to be fixed.  Could you try the patch
> (for Gnus v5.11) attached below?  It still might not be complete,
> so I set the default value of the new variable
>
> gnus-maximum-newsgroup
>
> to nil so that it might not change the present behavior of Gnus.
> Now I have
>
> (setq gnus-maximum-newsgroup 100000)
>
> and Gnus runs smoothly with be.politics and comp.os.linux.misc on
> news.motzarella.org (though the value 100000 is too much for those
> groups, see a note in the docstring of the variable).

I applied your patch and set gnus-maximum-newsgroup to 30000.  Here's
the state of the Emacs process when doing that:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
sven      3042  0.3  4.3  56568 44776 ?        R    15:01   0:54 emacs

Then I browsed news.motzarella.org and opened comp.os.linux.misc,
fetching the headers, and Emacs' state was

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
sven      3042  0.4  4.7  60432 49188 ?        S    15:01   1:03 emacs

That seems to be OK, I think.

Cheers,
       Sven