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Soren Dayton writes:

> I just performed an experiment.   I decided to read
> clari.living.comics.doonesbury 10 times to see what happened to the
> memory that my XEmacs was taking up.
 ...
> This stinks of a memory leak to me.  Is this a known problem?

It could be.  Gnus has been known to exercise bad code in XEmacs.
What kind of group is clari.living.comics.doonesbury?  There aren't
any messages in it on my nntp server.  The first thing I'd suspect
would be image display.  The new tm code to display images decodes
them multiple times.

Do an explicit (garbage-collect) in the *scratch* buffer to see memory
usage stats.  Maybe it will tell you something.

Speaking of image code, does anyone know the heritage of our internal
GIF code.  It looks really old, loves to crash on W3, and probably
should be updated.
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