From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4475 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New features + feature freeze? Date: 16 Dec 1995 17:28:25 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199512152254.AA277858048@teal.ece.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145218 29749 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA09218 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 08:59:48 -0800 Original-Received: from narfi.ifi.uio.no (narfi.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.17]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 17:28:27 +0100 Original-Received: from ) by narfi.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 16 Dec 95 17:28:26 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Wes Hardaker's message of Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:54:07 -0800 Original-Lines: 32 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4475 Wes Hardaker writes: > No no... It grows by 1Mb EVERY time I run Gnus. Oh. That's not good. If you're reading nnmh groups, you'll get bitten by the insert-file-contents/gc bug... > |> But what do you mean by "zero out some of the larger ones"? Zero out > |> variables? > > Yeah. Set them to 'nil. Particularily things like gnus-newsrc-alist, > which is reloaded when Gnus is re-run, so its pointless to keep the > information store in them. `gnus-clear-system' does set most Gnus variables to nil on exit. Even if it didn't do that, Emacs shouldn't grow each time you start Gnus. That's what we have garbage collection to handle... > |> Home is where the cat is. > > You obviously don't let your cat wander around outside like most of > mine do. Hell, some times I've owned cats that live in 3 or 4 houses > (or who ever will feed him). ;-) I've been cat-less for a while now, and am just expressing my sorrow at not having a home since I don't have a cat. *Sob*. Well, I'll live. Just not happily. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen