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From: Michael Welle <m.welle@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Duration of gnus-change-server
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:36:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2005.01.27.16.36.12.974526@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86vf9igbmq.fsf@lapchly.ted.ericsson.se>

Hi Christian,

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:00:45 +0100, Christian Lynbech wrote:

>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Welle <m.welle@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> Michael> Gnus is running for 16 hours now, consuming 100% cpu with a constant
> Michael> memory footprint. I am subscribed to about 40 groups and using a 1.2 MHz
> Michael> x86 machine.
> 
> Presumably, your emacs process is toasted. It happens once in a while,
> later emacs versions is not entirely as robust as they used to be.
> 
> Try taking a look on the process with strace, you may find that emacs
> is in rather tight loop apparently doing nothing else but calling
> gettimeofday or something similar.
The process is doing some read and write syscalls. Hm, but gnus has not
talked to the newsservers for hours now. I will wait for another hour and
than kill the beast.

Michael

PS: The machine is in the 1200 MHz class, not 1.2 MHz ;). 


      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27 12:07 Michael Welle
2005-01-27 15:00 ` Christian Lynbech
2005-01-27 16:36   ` Michael Welle [this message]

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