Re: Gnus Memory usage

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

>>>>> "Wes" == Wes Hardaker <hardaker@ece.ucdavis.edu> writes:

Wes> All I know is that when I was doing experiments a while back (sgnus
Wes> .2? or .1? something I would think) and I started sgnus, I'd get a
Wes> massive memory increase.  Then I would quit sgnus and restart it
Wes> again.  I would get yet another memory increase.  This was sort of
Wes> annoying, since you get XEmacs to grow to a fairly large size simply
Wes> by reading news say 3 or 4 times during the day.  These were fairly
Wes> consecutive bursts; I should try this again and do things in between
Wes> the sgnus runs to see if anything gets cleaned up.  Maybe tommorrow (ha).

Why kill and restart Gnus several times in the same XEmacs session?
The amount of time lost waiting for garbage collection as the size
increases easily surpasses the amount of time it takes to restart the
program from scratch.  It doesn't appear to hurt anything (if you have
the memory available) to just leave Gnus always running.
Disconnection is automatic, and reconnection is painless.

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