Re: Gnus from CVS, Emacs from CVS --> out of memory?

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> Alternatively, have you checked the message log?  Do you have any idea
>> how many groups were fetched before the error?  If the error always
>> occurs in one group, you might be able to trace the execution in that
>> group prior to out-of-memory.
>
> Ah, now I got an Emacs where I could do something after the OOM.  It
> was fetching nnimap+du:INBOX.spamspam.  I've now increased the group
> level to > gnus-agent-handle-level.  Seems to have done the trick.
>
> Alas, I have no idea what might have been the problem, here.  Gnus
> was also complaining about "Invalid line 42" or "Invalid entry 42" or
> "Invalid overview data 42" or something like this, for values of 42
> ranging from 1 to about 8,000.
>
> I wish I had the patience to get to the bottom of this.  I still have
> the ~/News/agent/nnimap/du/INBOX/spamspam directory, if that helps?

Take a look at the .overview file for articles 1 through 8,000.
What's wrong with these lines?  Would it cause read to consume memory?

Kevin