No more bloat.

No more bloat.

[Juri Pakaste]

Hmm, it seems that my problem with Emacs eating up all my memory when running 
Gnus was solved by deleting (well, moving) my .newsrc.eld file, which wasn't 
exactly small:

-rw-r--r--   1 jurip    users     3939964 Mar 31 10:08 .newsrc.eld

Each newsgroup was listed nine times, I think. Is that normal behaviour?

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Re: No more bloat.

[Thomas Neumann]

Juri Pakaste <jurip@cyteen.pp.icon.fi> writes:

> 
> 
> Hmm, it seems that my problem with Emacs eating up all my memory when running 
> Gnus was solved by deleting (well, moving) my .newsrc.eld file, which wasn't 
> exactly small:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 jurip    users     3939964 Mar 31 10:08 .newsrc.eld

Whoa! Mine was 7.8 megs. Thanks for pointing this out.

I've done some testing and I've found out that .newsrc.eld grows each
time you quit GNUS, so expect .newsrc.eld to become huge again...

The ugly thing about deleting .newsrc.eld is that it nukes all your
foreign groups :-(

-t

Re: No more bloat.

[Benny Amorsen]

>>>>> "TN" == Thomas Neumann <tom@smart.ruhr.de> writes:

TN> Juri Pakaste <jurip@cyteen.pp.icon.fi> writes:
>> Hmm, it seems that my problem with Emacs eating up all my memory
>> when running Gnus was solved by deleting (well, moving) my
>> .newsrc.eld file, which wasn't exactly small:
>> 
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 jurip users 3939964 Mar 31 10:08 .newsrc.eld

TN> Whoa! Mine was 7.8 megs. Thanks for pointing this out.

TN> I've done some testing and I've found out that .newsrc.eld grows
TN> each time you quit GNUS, so expect .newsrc.eld to become huge
TN> again...

TN> The ugly thing about deleting .newsrc.eld is that it nukes all
TN> your foreign groups :-(

I reported this problem a while ago to gnus-bug. (The next time I
report bugs I'll copy to this list.)

The problem is gnus-zombie-list. More specifically the problem is
that if you have gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method set to
gnus-subscribe-zombies, gnus will put the same groups in
gnus-zombie-list over and over again. It happens only when you start
gnus for the first time in a given emacs session - so if you never
quit emacs it's not a problem.

I'm using XEmacs-19.13 and sgnus-0.57, is it the same in other emacsen
and sgnusii? (Or whatever the proper plural forms are.)

Work-around: Do ESC ESC (setq gnus-zombie-list nil) before you quit
gnus. 


Benny

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