From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5182 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Gnus Memory usage Date: 20 Feb 1996 22:55:11 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.43) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145823 32075 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA10486 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:19:18 -0800 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:55:41 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA10272; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:55:12 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: dhall@illusion.apk.net's message of 20 Feb 1996 20:14:38 -0800 Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.40/XEmacs 19.13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5182 >>>>> "d" == d hall 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? -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.