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

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

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

> From time to time, after telling the Agent `J s', I get an out of
> memory error.  Emacs doesn't like it at all.  It started happening
> maybe a week ago.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Sometimes, Emacs tells me it's out of memory and asks me whether to
> continue.  Saying no gives me a working Emacs, but saying yes means
> that Emacs is really hung.  Constantly beeping (or flashing, due to
> visible-bell).
>
> Sometimes, I think that Emacs isn't asking for permission, it just
> constantly dings...

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.


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.

Kevin