From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52603 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus from CVS, Emacs from CVS --> out of memory? Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:03:52 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84of2cp7as.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052845355 32385 80.91.224.249 (13 May 2003 17:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 17:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1148@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 13 19:02:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FdAe-0008Pk-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19FdC9-0000dA-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 12:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19FdC4-0000d5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 May 2003 12:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 29877 invoked by alias); 13 May 2003 17:04:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29872 invoked from network); 13 May 2003 17:04:00 -0000 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk (148.79.80.39) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 13 May 2003 17:04:00 -0000 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19FdBw-0005Vy-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 18:03:52 +0100 X-Face: "_!nmR@11ZNuumt0oqG"Y3Hfy|;FGz)`"ul[G?ah6k-oNyDW?3/Nq3Qab$kUnUQ_d4};kPl R=}-Vqfo|S5mThi-kaBR=>%g5a3-OvnEhdHu{^APIaP:b}0m!$bDC>SX zz'r)e?`at?tpD*+~b+pf Original-To: Kevin Greiner X-Draft-From: ("nntp+quimby.gnus.org:gnus.ding" 48350) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52603 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52603 Kevin Greiner 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.)