Re: Xnews out of memory problem

Luu Tran <xnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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gta@xxxxxx wrote in
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that Xnews makes no
effort to conserve the usage of physical ram, it simply downloads
all headers into ram, before sorting and then storing the headers.
If there are too many headers to fit in the physical ram, kaboom,
because it doesn't even try to make room by writing
freshly-downloaded data to the hard drive. I've tried to download
headers in a piece-meal fashion, sadly to avail, because Xnews
insists on loading old headers into physical ram before downloading
the new ones.

correct. When I started Xnews, you had like 5000 new headers a day.
Now it's more like 100,000+ on heavy groups. But I haven't bothered
to change memory handling.

Two things you can do: 1) limit # of headers you get at one time. 2)
turn off header storage, or in a crunch just delete the relevant .hdr
and .mbx files in data\


Thank you very much for the reply, and more thanks for the great work you
put into this awesome free news reader.

A quick response to your suggestions: suggestion (1) is all that I can do
right now, and suggestion (2) is not very practical to me as turning off
storage would mean re-downloading all the headers each time I visit a
newsgroup, with some of more active groups having close to 10 million
total posts, it literally takes close to an hour on my not-so-shabby
cable connectoin.

I've tried quite a few newsgroup readers, Forte's Agent for example, but
I always find Xnews to be far more intuitive, more user-friendly, and
with a much less steep learning curve. I sincerely hope that some day in
the future, Xnews would be fitted with a more comptemporary memory
handling routine.

Thanks again.
.

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