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Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:


[...]

> % egrep '^10015' .overview | wc -l
>      36
>
> Ahh...  So 36 lines are functionally duplicates for a single message.
> But why?
>
> So, I move this file aside and reenter the group and bang!  What a
> speed difference (and I'm sure a memory difference too, but I probably
> need to restart emacs to claim everything).  Now the .overview file:
>
> % egrep '^10015' .overview | wc -l
>       1
>
> Yay.  A single line.
>
> keystrokes:  q ENTER
>
> Nada.  No change.  A good thing.
>
> keystrokes:  q 2 g ENTER
>
> % egrep '^10015' .overview | wc -l
>       2
>
> Ack.  And so we begin again collecting too much data.
>
> Apparently the new auto-header-fetch code is duplicating stuff?

Emm, it looks like a bug. But I didn't see duplication in my .overview
files. Maybe there is something wrong in gnus-agent-braid-nov. Could
you debug it?

ShengHuo