Re: Gnus Memory usage

[hardaker@ece.ucdavis.edu (Wes Hardaker)]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

    Steven> Why kill and restart Gnus several times in the same XEmacs
    Steven> session?  The amount of time lost waiting for garbage
    Steven> collection as the size increases easily surpasses the
    Steven> amount of time it takes to restart the program from
    Steven> scratch.  It doesn't appear to hurt anything (if you have
    Steven> the memory available) to just leave Gnus always running.
    Steven> Disconnection is automatic, and reconnection is painless.

Well, this is what I've started doing more lately.  Originally, I just
did it automatically thinking I wouldn't be reading news later.  It
was then that I noticed things got even worse during the second read.
At the time, I didn't read any mail inside gnus, so it was unusual to
read news twice in one day.  Again, I haven't checked this out in a
while so it may not happen anymore.

However, if it does shrink XEmacs to quit gnus, that alone might be
enough of a reason (though I think we've proven it doesn't shrink by
much).  When I'm actually trying to get some work done, my HP 715/80
with 96 megs of memory swaps constantly while running Mentor (a
bloated EE CAD program).  I often quit XEmacs all together before
starting Mentor.

blah blah blah
Wes