From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus explosion (memory exhausted) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:55:17 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <87vd8p5elm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291845283 15625 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:54:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 22:54:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQRyB-0007dY-0s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:54:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRyA-0005Ni-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:54:38 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!open-news-network.org!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1278659314 00 n9553 i+HaBao6gxVPGzK 100709 07:08:34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: bLEIngZAQe1-k9rciiBMrUhJbr35ekK5kFBtPPHygfeKDv0+q6wsQ2 X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T; w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv, vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~, :3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/, ^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C+BWYHf6Cx2FRbAv3qyz1V0lQ9U= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179655 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76086 Archived-At: 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 ,----[ 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/