From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43042 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Possible problem with bookmarks in CVS Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:21:52 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nwuxjn28f.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178197 15444 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7367 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2002 21:23:15 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2002 21:23:15 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16aNu5-0002t6-00; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:22:25 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:22:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00632 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:22:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 7345 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7340 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0000 Original-Received: from pool-162-83-161-205.ny5030.east.verizon.net (HELO zsh.2y.net) (162.83.161.205) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0000 Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.2y.net (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g1BLLqZ20813; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:21:52 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: #zw9`a=vHLkn+ZH8C (Russ Allbery's message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:22:08 -0800") Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43042 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43042 Russ Allbery 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