From: ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: Possible problem with bookmarks in CVS
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:21:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2nwuxjn28f.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yllme9xaj3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:22:08 -0800")
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Not sure if this may have already been fixed, but I figured I'd report it
> just in case.
>
> A few days ago, I discovered that my newsrc.eld file had suddenly become
> over 1MB in size rather than its normal size of a bit under 100KB. After
> investigating, I found that in two groups I had bookmarks on articles
> (which had since been marked read, but not expired) and that bookmark
> information looked like it was being duplicated exponentially each time
> I'd entered the group and then left it again. In other words, newsrc.eld
> contained stuff like (wrapped for readability):
>
> ("nnml:save.writing.complex" 2 ((1 . 2178))
> ((bookmark (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)
> (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)
> (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)
> (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)
> (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)
> [...]
> (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)
> (2086 . 224)) (reply 249 251 259 270 299 314 332 367 370 377 381 384
> (386 . 387) 392 396 403 413 419 423 525 562 666 720 816 922 1114 1118
> 1333 1468 1688 1841 1963))
>
> continuing on for some 200KB in one group and 700KB in another (that I
> read more frequently).
>
> Each time I pressed B M on the article, it did remove one instance of the
> bookmark from newsrc.eld, but obviously that would have taken far too long
> to fix that way. I eventually resorted to editing newsrc.eld to remove
> the whole bookmark form and that fixed it (well, the first time it just
> pulled it all back in from the .marks file, but the second time I also
> deleted the .marks file and that did it).
>
> I've not tried using a bookmark since, so I don't know if this bug still
> exists.
It is because update-mark can not handle bookmark properly. Now I add
bookmark into gnus-article-unpropagated-mark-lists to avoid the
problem.
ShengHuo
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