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After finishing reading a group and upon going to the next, I
sometimes see a message like the following in the mode line:

  Expiry recovered 23 NOV entries, deleted 0 files, and freed 5.457031 KB.

What's this mean, specifically the 5.457031 KB.  If that's truly a
fractional amount, I want to know what 0.031 bytes looks like, it's
about a quarter of a single bit.  If the dot is being used to separate
thousands or millions, European style rather than US style, then it's
claiming to have freed over 5GB.  I'm confused.

What's really bothering me is that upon displaying this msg, Gnus
freezes up for something like 30-60 seconds; I can't do anything.
Is it really working, or is this some delay to allow puny humans to
read a transient message?

I'm running No Gnus v0.2 from CVS about a week ago, and have seen this
for maybe a month or two with various CVS versions.

Thanks.