Re: help --- out of memory error

On Wed, 07 May 2025 20:45:01 +0100, Dan <danZZZ12398newsgroups@outlook.com> wrote:

I currently use  (paid - latest) forte - agent as a my news reader.
Sadly it cannot handle large files. It states "out of memory". My
current PC is the x 7- 9700 ryzen with 32 GB ddr 5 RAM. So hardware is
not a problem. Even with multiple programs open, task manager states
8.1 Gig RAM used.
Internet is 1 Gig symmetric, but whenever I try to download large
number of files I get the above error.
So what can be recommended to solve this problem?

p.s.  search results suggest agent 8 had "memory issues" . . .

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=forte+agent+out+of+memory+error

e.g.

Path: n..!spool1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!not-for-mail
From: M. Berkowitz <not@in-this-lifetime.com>
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
Subject: Memory issues with Agent 8 build 1272 on windows 10 pc
Message-ID: <fpkascd1erm0eco91ht2dffa1js4r2c28i@4ax.com>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:34:16 -0700\
...
I am having multiple issues running Agent 8 current build on my Intel
based HP Envy laptop with:
2TB hard drive
16Gb of memory
Windows 10 professional
Intel Core i7 processor &th gen
1) Megajoining very large files fails resulting in multiple downloads
that never finish.
2) Downloading newsgroup headers in groups with a large number of
messages causes the error: Out of memory: Close other programs and try
the operation again. Since Forte doesn't allow incremental header
updates starting from oldest to newest messages, sampling messages
doesn't work. Before one crash the kill filter found 85,000,000
messages from the jerks spamming the groups with PRIVATE in the
subject.
There is plenty of virtual memory available but agent doesn't seem to
use it. 16GB of working memory is also ample. Agent is the only
program running when either of these problems occur.
I have tried to get help from Forte but they never reply. How did they
bumble memory management so badly? The concepts they introduced in
Agent 8 are interesting but were not fully developed. I turned off
megajoining but it is more difficult to retrieve attachment segments
and par files than in previous versions of Agent. Is Forete still in
business or have they abandoned development and support for Agent?

[end quoted excerpt . . . 18 total articles in that 8-yr old thread]

i never encountered errors while testing agent 8, but i didn't like the
overcomplicated interface with too many features i'd probably never use

(p.p.s.  your article resembles this eight-year old article prominently)