From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>
Cc: 31044@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31044: 25.3; Memory use explodes splitting email into gnus nnfolders
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:16:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zi2k4bol.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orh8osn0oy.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> (message from Alexandre Oliva on Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:39:25 -0300)
> From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:39:25 -0300
>
>
> I have some 5 GB of active gnus nnfolder files. Emacs memory use, in a
> fresh -nw remote session, skyrocketed to over 55GB while splitting some
> 150MB of email. This happened to me today.
>
> However, this has not been unusual. Smaller batches of email have often
> used up over 20GB of RAM; my poor x200, limited to 8GB of RAM, hasn't
> been able to split my mail any more for months; I can't promise this
> started with 25.3, it may have been before that, but some older version
> of Emacs had little trouble splitting similar aomunts of email onto
> pretty much the same set of folders with 8GB, and even 4GB of RAM,
> though the latter was already pushing it a longer while ago.
Can you try the latest pretest of Emacs 26.1 (it's available from
alpha.gnu), or building the emacs-26 branch of the Emacs Git
repository? This could be due to some memory related issues that are
supposed to be fixed in Emacs 26.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-03 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-03 8:39 bug#31044: 25.3; Memory use explodes splitting email into gnus nnfolders Alexandre Oliva
2018-04-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-04 16:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2018-04-04 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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