Gnus Memory usage

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "d" == d hall <dhall@illusion.apk.net> writes:

d> One strange note, I'd like to bring up since all this NNFOLDER talk has
d> been occuring.  I ran list-buffers at one time and found all my nnfolder
d> files open in their own buffers.  I did a C-h v on nnfolder-always-close,
d> which was t.  Right now my emacs is bloated to the point where at times
d> when running Gnus it'll eat up 8 megs of my 16 meg linux.  I'd really
d> rather not have to swap all my processes to read news, any suggestions on
d> reducing this?

I'd love to have a Gnus stay down at only 8 MB, but let me quantify my
numbers.

This is from a Linux 1.2.13, ELF system, output slightly reformatted
to align the columns.  And yes, I have enabled the allocator that can
return memory to the system.

ps -ux output:
USER       PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
steve     2148  2.8 18.3 4899  5724  ?  S    11:39  18:21 /usr/local/bin/xemacs
steve     7329 29.6 39.8 9327 12408  ?  S    19:30  53:39 /usr/local/bin/xemacs

ps -mx output:
  PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS  DRS   SIZE SWAP   RSS SHRD  LIB    DT COMMAND
2148  ?    1994   3431 1976  3968  6660  716  5944 1928    0   986 /usr/local
7329  ?     779 287486 1872 11208 13860  780 13080 2068    0  2753 /usr/local

PID 2148 is an XEmacs I've been editing in all afternoon.  PID 7329
has been running Gnus.  I consider this memory usage unacceptable.

The burning question is what does everyone consider acceptable and
normal Gnus+X?Emacs memory usage?

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