Memory exhausted while reading mail

Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Nemeth Ervin]

I've got a mail in my folder, which leads to a "Memory exhausted-- <etc.>"
message in Emacs if I open it with Gnus.  That is strange because

Memory: 512M real, 7744K free, 511M swap in use, 1537M swap free

though I know Emacs itself has a memory usage limit.

The mail message is ca. 1900 lines long.

I don't attach it here, not to ruin somebody's Gnus accidentally, but I
resend it to anybody on request.

You can also download it from <URL:http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin/1173>.

Thanks,
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Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:

> I've got a mail in my folder, which leads to a "Memory exhausted-- <etc.>"
> message in Emacs if I open it with Gnus. 

[...]

> You can also download it from <URL:http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin/1173>.

I tried viewing the message, and it worked OK for me.  It's an HTML
message, so perhaps this is w3 related?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Nemeth Ervin]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

> Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:
>> I've got a mail in my folder, which leads to a "Memory exhausted-- <etc.>"
>> message in Emacs if I open it with Gnus. 

> [...]

>> You can also download it from <URL:http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin/1173>.

> I tried viewing the message, and it worked OK for me.  It's an HTML
> message, so perhaps this is w3 related?

My fault, I haven't announce my environment.  I'm using GNU Emacs 20.4.1
(sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit) of Thu Jul 29 1999 on kempelen with
Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98

How can I help to debug the problem?  With backtracing?  And if so, how can I
do that?

I still have the problem.

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//	< airwin @ inf.bme.hu >		http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin
||
||	"Nonsense.  All you have to do is say 'Engage'"
||					-- Patrick Stewart about warp theory

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:

> How can I help to debug the problem?  With backtracing?  And if so, how can I
> do that?

`(setq debug-on-error t)' and repeat the bug.  You should then get a
backtrace. 

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Nemeth Ervin]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

> Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:

>> How can I help to debug the problem?  With backtracing?  And if so, how can
>> I do that?

> `(setq debug-on-error t)' and repeat the bug.  You should then get a
> backtrace. 

Tried it, does not work.  It seems not be a real error triggering debug.

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  ____                 ____________________________________________________
 /____| NEMETH, ERVIN |____________________________________________________|
//	< airwin @ inf.bme.hu >		http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin
||
||	"Nonsense.  All you have to do is say 'Engage'"
||					-- Patrick Stewart about warp theory

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:

> Tried it, does not work.  It seems not be a real error triggering debug.

What w3 version are you using?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Nemeth Ervin]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

> What w3 version are you using?

GNU Emacs does not include the w3 package, as XEmacs does, and I haven't
installed it.  So my tip is Gnus should display it inline, shouldn't it?

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  ____                 ____________________________________________________
 /____| NEMETH, ERVIN |____________________________________________________|
//	< airwin @ inf.bme.hu >		http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin
||
||	"Nonsense.  All you have to do is say 'Engage'"
||					-- Patrick Stewart about warp theory

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:

> GNU Emacs does not include the w3 package, as XEmacs does, and I haven't
> installed it.  So my tip is Gnus should display it inline, shouldn't it?

It should.  I haven't heard of a similar behavior before.  Could there 
be something wrong with your Emacs 20.4 installation?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Nemeth Ervin]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

[...]

> It should.  I haven't heard of a similar behavior before.  Could there 
> be something wrong with your Emacs 20.4 installation?

I don't think so.

I've created a testuser, with no .emacs, no .gnus.  I've started Gnu Emacs,
Gnus 5.8.2, and opened the message...  with the same results.

And now listen:  I've repeated the very same procedure on a i586 Linux
machine, and Emacs did a segfault!

I'm not sure anymore if that is a Gnus-bug.

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  ____                 ____________________________________________________
 /____| NEMETH, ERVIN |____________________________________________________|
//	< airwin @ inf.bme.hu >		http://www.inf.bme.hu/~airwin
||
||	"Nonsense.  All you have to do is say 'Engage'"
||					-- Patrick Stewart about warp theory

Re: Memory exhausted while reading mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu> writes:

> And now listen:  I've repeated the very same procedure on a i586 Linux
> machine, and Emacs did a segfault!
> 
> I'm not sure anymore if that is a Gnus-bug.

If Emacs segfaults, then it isn't a Gnus bug.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen