From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10466
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: Gnus problems at the edge of memory
Date: 02 Apr 1997 11:55:53 +0200
Sender: larsi@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no
Message-ID: <m2zpvhd9zq.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no>
References: <s5ksp1aitgw.fsf@hp138.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150332 24565 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:45:32 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:45:32 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <ding-request@ifi.uio.no>
Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2])
	by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA31512
	for <steve@miranova.com>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 02:27:47 -0800
Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@ppp18.larris.ifi.uio.no [129.240.68.118]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) 
	id <MAA04885@ifi.uio.no> for <ding@ifi.uio.no> ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 12:02:42 +0200
Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id LAA07992; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:55:56 +0200
Mail-Copies-To: never
Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no
In-Reply-To: Jost Krieger's message of 01 Apr 1997 18:43:59 +0200
Original-Lines: 18
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.40/Emacs 19.34
X-Face: &w!^oO<W.WBH]FsTP:P0f9X6M-ygaADlA_)eF$<UwQzj7:C=Gi<a?/_4$LX^@$Qq7-O&XHp
 lDARi8e8iT<(A$LWAZD*xjk^')/wI5nG;1cNB>~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\<y
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10466
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10466

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

> 1. scenario: Virtual memory fills up, I get the dreaded
>    "save-some-buffers" message (saving doesn't help of course).

Saving does help -- if the dribble buffer is saved, all information
will be restored the next time you run Gnus.

> 2. scenario: at other times, my disk fills up. Most of the time I'm
>    left with an almost empty active file (for nnml). Could we please
>    have a generate-active function ? (Right now I use a shell script.)

`M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases' will do this, but it takes quite a
while, I guess...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  lmi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen