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


From: Dan Espen
Subject: Re: Limit the size of the header of a newsgroup to fetch
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:14:55 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Allen Yang <etimecowboy@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> 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?

You could always catch-up the whole group before reading.

-- 
Dan Espen


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