Gnus producing loads of timers

Gnus producing loads of timers

[Jan Vroonhof]

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Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83
XEmacs 21.1 (patch 3) "Acadia" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1) of Sun Oct 10 1999 on bolzano
200 pfaff.ethz.ch DNEWS Version 4.7m, S0, posting OK 

While trying to determine why XEmacs is sucking up so much CPU
sometimes, I noticed the following:

Try reading NEWS with Gnus for a while with async prefetch enabled,
then type M-x edit-itimers.
I have about 400 itimers of the type..

"itimer-<62>"           0.1       nil   gnus-async-prefetch yes    ("nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding" 14229 #<killed buffer>)

somehow the idle timers for prefetching are not being deleted. 


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Re: Gnus producing loads of timers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Try reading NEWS with Gnus for a while with async prefetch enabled,
> then type M-x edit-itimers.
> I have about 400 itimers of the type..
> 
> "itimer-<62>"           0.1       nil   gnus-async-prefetch yes    ("nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding" 14229 #<killed buffer>)

Gnus uses `run-with-idle-timer' to run stuff.  Perhaps Gnus should
cancel them as it goes along?  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99.

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