Re: Gnus from CVS, Emacs from CVS --> out of memory?

[Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net>]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> From time to time, after telling the Agent `J s', I get an out of
> memory error.  Emacs doesn't like it at all.  It started happening
> maybe a week ago.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?

Here is something that seems likely to be related to Kai's reported
problem with J s.:


Starting with cvs 5.10.2  and with a more recent cvs that still says
5.10.2 (yesterday) (and just now including Lars just released 5.10.2
release)
I see the following phenomena:

Starting emacs/gnus from scratch with `emacs -f gnus'.  Everything
seems to proceed normally but once everything is fully loaded.  If I
run `J s' gnus/emacs completely crashs and the frame disappears
without a sound.  Some sort of silent kill happens.  Looks like what
one would expect from a `kill -9 emacs'.

(NOTE: Reverting to cvs version v0.20 cures the problem reported
below)


Recent changes I've done are:

1) Removed the 3 cons cells related to undownloaded faces with
   customize

2) Added `%O' specifier to gnus-summary-line-format (in .gnus.el)
  (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%O%2t%U%R%7d%z%I%(%[%4L: %-20,20f%]%) %s\n")

3) Added a handler someone posted to .gnus.el
  (setq gnus-use-demon t)
  (setq gnus-demon-timestep 1)
  (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news 120 60)