From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52591 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus from CVS, Emacs from CVS --> out of memory? Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:10:22 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84of2cp7as.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <8465of114j.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052835015 6146 80.91.224.249 (13 May 2003 14:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1135@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 13 16:10:04 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 19FaT1-0001Wl-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 16:09:19 +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 19FaUK-0007fD-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 09:10:40 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19FaUE-0007f8-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 May 2003 09:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 21063 invoked by alias); 13 May 2003 14:10:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21058 invoked from network); 13 May 2003 14:10:34 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 13 May 2003 14:10:34 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19FaZW-0004WH-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 16:16:02 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-66-134-21-51.hstqtx02.covad.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1052835362 16983 66.134.21.51 (13 May 2003 14:16:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 2003 14:16:02 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aOSkusYaKyhiE5xoj+zpqp1fbLk= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52591 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52591 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Kevin Greiner 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