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Re: Limit the size of the header of a newsgroup to fetch


From: Sven Joachim
Subject: Re: Limit the size of the header of a newsgroup to fetch
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:14:54 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

On 2011-12-16 06:07 +0100, Allen Yang wrote:

> I am not an expert of Gnus, and I found an annoying thing about
> Gnus is that it will exceed the memory limit when fetching a
> newsgroup which reserves a huge number of articles.
>
> For example: 
>
> In my case, there are more than 370,000 articles reside in a
> newsgroup on the nntp server. Although I set only 100 when Gnus
> asked me the number of articles to fetch before I entered this
> group, Gnus still run into the trouble.
>
> Is there any solution?

Yes, set the gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles variable.

Sven


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