Re: gnus explosion (memory exhausted)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Jul 08 2010, Gary wrote:

> When trying to open newsgroups with a hug number of articles,
> e.g. gmane.comp.php.general on the gmane newsserver, I find that gnus is
> unable to do so and says "Memory exhausted--use C-x s then exit and
> restart Emacs" while doing the nntp read.
>
> Setting gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles doesn't seem to make any
> difference, the nntp read still seems to try and get absolutely
> everything.

Works for me when selecting this group from the *Server* buffer

,----[ <f1> v gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles RET ]
| gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
| Its value is 10
| 
| Documentation:
| The maximum number of articles a newsgroup.
| If this is a number, old articles in a newsgroup exceeding this number
| are silently ignored.  If it is nil, no article is ignored.  Note that
| setting this variable to a number might prevent you from reading very
| old articles.
`----

,----[ *nntp-log* (cf. `nntp-record-commands') ]
| 20100709T085145.492 news.gmane.org MODE READER
| 20100709T085145.538 news.gmane.org LIST
| 20100709T085206.022 news.gmane.org MODE READER
| 20100709T085206.073 news.gmane.org GROUP gmane.comp.php.general
| 20100709T085206.112 news.gmane.org GROUP gmane.comp.php.general
| 20100709T085206.157 news.gmane.org XOVER 214849-214858
`----

> Does anyone have any ideas how to get around this?

Bye, Reiner.
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