From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4386 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Duration of gnus-change-server Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:36:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <86vf9igbmq.fsf@lapchly.ted.ericsson.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670319 23030 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:18:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:18:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:41 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net 7vX7D3wkXyihAdYSJowAAgwIO6kQ7aS3w6nu3QkH+5JH3E3qnJ User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4527 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4527 Tue Jan 17 17:33:41 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4386 Archived-At: Hi Christian, On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:00:45 +0100, Christian Lynbech wrote: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Welle 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 ;).