Possible problem with bookmarks in CVS

Possible problem with bookmarks in CVS

[Russ Allbery]

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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Possible problem with bookmarks in CVS

[ShengHuo ZHU]

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