From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20331 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robin S. Socha" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: PGnus0.69 is eating away my memory? Date: 15 Jan 1999 20:06:06 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158639 17130 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18307 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:09:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB11119; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:08:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:08:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04803 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:08:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from public.ndh.com (public.ndh.net [194.97.97.21]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18292 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:08:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from radioactive.kens.com (root@port245.koeln.ndh.net [195.94.92.245]) by public.ndh.com (8.8.7/8.8.0) with ESMTP id UAA18430 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:07:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from robin@localhost) by radioactive.kens.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25038; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:06:07 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "05 Jan 1999 23:47:13 +0100" Original-Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070069 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.69) XEmacs/21.0(beta62) (Pyrenean) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20331 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20331 * Hrvoje Niksic writes: > "Robin S. Socha" writes: [some testing later...] >> I'm running XEmacs 21.2 Artemis and PGnus 0.69. Three times today, Gnus >> has sucked up all my memory. I guess... ;-) > What were the exact symptoms that you observed? 1. Gnus starts *two* instances of leafnode 2. leafnode becomes *huge* Like this: robin@radioactive:/home/robin > top Mem: 63004K av, 55208K used, 7796K free, 14892K shrd, 4940K buff Swap: 80320K av, 12888K used, 67432K free 14620K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 24970 news 0 0 1992 1992 324 S 0 0.0 3.1 0:00 leafnode 24975 news 0 0 1992 1992 324 S 0 0.0 3.1 0:00 leafnode However, this can happen, too: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 272 robin 1 0 25288 19M 3976 S 0 0.0 31.9 20:06 xemacs 315 news 0 0 21976 10M 160 S 0 0.0 17.3 0:17 leafnode 303 news 0 0 21260 8960 140 S 0 0.0 14.2 0:13 leafnode > If XEmacs has locked up on you, you can set `debug-on-quit' to t, press > C-g, and mail us the resulting backtrace. It's obviously not an XEmacs problem. And theoretically, it's not a leafnode problem, either (this happens with both 1.8 as well as 1.8.2 which Cornelius Krasel kindly sent me for testing this). leafnode itself doesn't fork (there is one in fetch.c): fetch.c: if ( fork() <= 0 ) { fetch.c: syslog( LOG_DEBUG, "Process forked." ); radioactive:/var/spool/news/leaf.node # cat groupinfo | wc -l 16531 Ummm... does that help a little more? Robin -- Robin S. Socha