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

[Allen Yang]

No, it does not help. Still the memory problem. It seems only
happen when fetch a newsgroup which has very large amount of
articles, let's say 350,000.

>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

    Sven> 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?

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

    Sven> Sven