From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42836 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Benchmarking Gnus Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:34:29 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87u1t2tr6y.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178026 14338 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29136 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 16:41:21 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 16:41:21 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16WKFa-00071e-00; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:39:50 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:39:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA00854 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:38:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 29077 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2002 16:38:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29072 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 16:38:45 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 16:38:45 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16WKJH-0007SU-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:43:39 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c96s55h3.upc.chello.no Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1012495419 28673 213.46.211.96 (31 Jan 2002 16:43:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jan 2002 16:43:39 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3cWpikA21nb4wU7374VksgsKBr4= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42836 >>>>> Wes Hardaker : [snip! 80MB xemacs with Gnus] > Gnus is definitely responsible. I finally did run it for a while > without gnus and didn't get any major memory leaks. Immediately > after starting gnus and entering a few groups, I'm back at huge > memory usages. sigh... > However, these are imap folders. Do you have some old articles marked? Are you using agent? If so, I have seen the "exploding process size on folder visit" problem as well (search for the thread with the subject "any tips for how to tune Gnus/emacs for low memory usage?") on a laptop with very little physical memory by today's standards. The problems were more severe with XEmacs 21.4, than they were with GNU Emacs 20.7, though the problems were recognizably present there as well. Didn't larsi do some tuning on opening Summary buffers recently, that should avoid creating so much stuff to be garbage collected? Or was that just nntp? Has anyone looked into the bug with agent fetching all articles between the oldest ticked articles and the current (ie. re-fetching articles that were previously expired from the agent)? It was reported by Bjørn Mork a couple of weeks back.