From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Memory exhausted while saving .newsrc.eld
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:23:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37kah7ft4.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk7fp8g6i.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com> (Kevin Greiner's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:30:45 -0600")
Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
> I just noticed that doing a 'J s' (gnus-agent-fetch-session) on
> sufficient large number of groups can make the gnus-newsrc-alist so
> large that you run out of memory while saving it. I've traced the
> problem to gnus-save-newsrc-file which writes everything to a buffer
> then uses save-buffer to write it to a file.
Wow. Is the .newsrc.eld file really that big?
Anyway, I just found a bug in the .newsrc.eld code that made my file
7k long instead of 700k, as it apparently was supposed to be. I've
now bound print-length to nil the appropriate function.
> I'd like to rewrite gnus-save-newsrc-file to write directly to a
> temp file then, if no errors occur during writing, rename the temp
> file as .newsrc.eld.
I'm not sure it's possible to do any such thing in a reasonable
fashion. You'd have basically to implement the Lisp writer in a
file-specific manner.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2003-02-24 22:30 Kevin Greiner
2003-03-30 2:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-03-31 14:55 ` Kevin Greiner
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