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Re: Duration of gnus-change-server
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Michael Welle |
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Re: Duration of gnus-change-server |
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Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:36:17 +0100 |
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Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) |
Hi Christian,
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:00:45 +0100, Christian Lynbech wrote:
>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Welle <m.welle@gmx.net> 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 ;).