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>>>>> "Rich" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

>>>>> "JK" == Jost Krieger <kriegjcb@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

    JK> For quite a few versions of Gnus (say since 5.0.xx) I've been
    JK> running into problems because I was running out of memory
    JK> (sic).

    Rich> Really....

    JK> 1. scenario: Virtual memory fills up,

    Rich> I find this to be a neat trick, considering that on the
    Rich> "bloated" Windows 95 platform I can run GNU Emacs 19.34,
    Rich> Gnus, bbdb, mailicrypt, supercite, and the rest of my 12Mb
    Rich> or so collection of Emacs Lisp dohickies, and still not
    Rich> force my swap file above 20Mb on a 12Mb RAM machine.  In
    Rich> fact, right now my swap file is just over 11Mb.

It happens with reasonable (or rather, unreasonable) frequency on OS/2
(Warp 3.0), which I'm sure points to a memory leak in the emacs port
or in more likely in the OS/2 dlls rather than GNUS.  However, it used
to be much worse when I used RMAIL.

I usually manage to exit emacs normally (which clears the swap file
problems), but when I don't, as long as the dribble file gets saved
proper state can be restored.

(BTW, netscape + emacs can bring my swap to it's knees is no time.
Care to guess which tool I don't use because of it? :)


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