Duration of gnus-change-server

Duration of gnus-change-server

[Michael Welle]

Hi,

are there any estimations about the duration of a gnus-change-server run?
Gnus is running for 16 hours now, consuming 100% cpu with a constant
memory footprint. I am subscribed to about 40 groups and using a 1.2 MHz
x86 machine.

Michael

Re: Duration of gnus-change-server

[Christian Lynbech]

>>>>> "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.

You can try hitting C-g which may break out of whatever emacs is
doing, but it may also very well be that you need to kill the process
and start a fresh emacs.

Another variation is that emacs is hanging on some "futex" call but
then it hangs and you would not see the CPU consumption that you are
seeing.

                             -- Christian

Re: Duration of gnus-change-server

[Michael Welle]

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 ;).