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>>>>> Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com>:

> The only unfortunate thing is that I had to lose most of my
> .newsrc.eld file.  I couldn't get it started until I'd stripped down
> gnus-newsrc-alist, gnus-killed-list and gnus-topic-alist down to a
> bare minimum of groups.  I'm not sure why.  *And* xemacs is still
> taking up most of the memory on the system.  "top" reports that
> xemacs-21.1.14 has SIZE = 93300K and RES = 54740K.  (Quite a shock,
> really; even Mozilla 0.9 has SIZE = 60384K and RES = 13988K.)

> A plain ol' xemacs process takes up about 9MB, not 90MB.  So is Gnus
> really sucking up this much memory?

Do you have any old nnml groups with sparse article numbers?  I saw
someone write something about the fact that expanding ranges in emacs,
cost a lot of memory.  It is very slow, at least.