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:
>
>> The constant dings is the result of running out of memory while trying
>> to generate the "out of memory" alert.  I used to get it when I evaled
>> a form on way too many buffers.
>
> Hehe.
>
>> 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.
>>
>> That seems to be the most likely culpret.  The group's article lists
>> may also be growing but it's hard to believe that they'd be that
>> large.
>
> Hm.  The sum of all .overview files is 111M, distributed over 300 of
> them.  No file is larger than 10M.
>
> (I just deleted some files of 20M each.  But I still get the same
> symtoms.)

What does list-buffers show after you kill the fetch session?  As an
example, I just opened two groups and my .newsrc-dribble file is
already over 3M.

> The article lists, is that the .agentview files?  They are all <100k.

Actually I was thinking of the seen, read, ticked lists in newsrc.eld

Kevin