High RAM usage

[wonkydonky]

Newsbeuter version (copy from newsbeuter -v): 2.9

Other info you think is relevant:

I have 80 feeds and keep-articles-days 30. Newsbeuter is using more than 500MB of RAM. Is there any way to reduce RAM usage? With keep-articles-days 0 it was using more than 1GB! Why does newsbeuter use all this memory??

[Minoru]

Hi! Newsbeuter isn't maintained anymore; I'm leading a fork called Newsboat. Unfortunately, it too exhibits the memory usage problem, and I haven't been able to figure it out so far. Some of other Newsbeuter bugs are fixed, though, and eventually this one will be, too, so switch already :)

[polyzen]

Are those figures for virtual memory on Linux? I have 2.2G for VIRT, but only 161M RES (no swap). I also have almost 5k unread articles >.>.

M_SIZE (VIRT)
     The size of the virtual memory of the process.

M_RESIDENT (RES)
     The resident set size (text + data + stack) of the process (i.e. the size of the process's used physical memory).

[wonkydonky]

1GB was resident memory. Virtual memory was 3GB or more.

Edit: yes Linux of course

[wonkydonky]

@Minoru why didn't you take the lead of newsbeuter instead of forking to a new project?

[Minoru]

@wonkydonky, I did exactly that, and worked on it for almost two years, but I coudn't publish releases on newsbeuter.org, so I forked the project. You can pick a few more details from my letter to Newsbeuter mailing list.

[wonkydonky]

OK, I'm going to switch to Newsboat. It would have been very simple for @akrennmair to just give you access to the repo instead of never responding.

[Minoru]

He did give me access—Collaborator badge on my comments proves that—but the newsbeuter.org site can't be edited through the repo, so I can't announce new releases and publish new docs.

[wonkydonky]

He could have as easily had handed the website to you as well :)