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From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus from CVS, Emacs from CVS --> out of memory?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:03:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqwuguzslj.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufznm1rd5.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com>

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> The constant dings is the result of running out of memory while trying
> to generate the "out of memory" alert.

Then it's a bug which should be reported.  Emacs keeps some memory
free for such an eventuality.

> You might check the size of your group's .overview file.  I managed to
> get one up to 108M by not running gnus-agent-expire for several
> months.

For what it's worth, out-of-memory errors can arise from the total
heap getting too big or fragmented, regardless of buffer sizes or
available VM.  (See `VALIDATE_LISP_STORAGE' in alloc.c.)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-13 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-09 13:40 Kai Großjohann
2003-05-10  0:44 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-10 20:25 ` Kevin Greiner
2003-05-13 12:29   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13 14:10     ` Kevin Greiner
2003-05-13 15:13       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13 19:51         ` Kevin Greiner
2003-05-15 10:01           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-15 15:16             ` Kevin Greiner
2003-05-18  9:27               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13 17:03   ` Dave Love [this message]
2003-05-13 23:21 ` Harry Putnam
2003-05-14  0:29   ` Harry Putnam

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