could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi 

More importantly, can or should I clean a large .newsrc.eld file?

If so, how shall I do the cleanup?

Regards

Uwe Brauer 

Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Tassilo Horn]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

Hi Uwe,

well, it slows down the startup of Gnus but contains a gazillion of data
you wouldn't want to miss like your topics, what articles you've read &
marked, scores, ad-hoc written group parameters, etc.

> More importantly, can or should I clean a large .newsrc.eld file?

No, not unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing and your first
name is either Lars or Eric. ;-)

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> Hi Uwe,

> well, it slows down the startup of Gnus but contains a gazillion of data
> you wouldn't want to miss like your topics, what articles you've read &
> marked, scores, ad-hoc written group parameters, etc.

>> More importantly, can or should I clean a large .newsrc.eld file?

> No, not unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing and your first
> name is either Lars or Eric. ;-)

I see, those names have 4 letters, mine has only 3, so on that base, I
rather don't do anything 😇

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Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> Hi Uwe,
>
>> well, it slows down the startup of Gnus but contains a gazillion of data
>> you wouldn't want to miss like your topics, what articles you've read &
>> marked, scores, ad-hoc written group parameters, etc.
>
>>> More importantly, can or should I clean a large .newsrc.eld file?
>
>> No, not unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing and your first
>> name is either Lars or Eric. ;-)
>
> I see, those names have 4 letters, mine has only 3, so on that base, I
> rather don't do anything 😇

Oh I'm just as afraid of .newsrc.eld as anyone else :) But Tassilo's
right, there's no "extra" data in there that you could garbage collect.
You'd have to actually unsubscribe from or delete groups you don't want
anymore.

Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Andreas Schwab]

You could try to compact the article number lists, especially the seen
list can have a lot of holes.  You can do that with G E
(gnus-group-edit-group) from the *Group* buffer.

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Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "AS" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> You could try to compact the article number lists, especially the seen
> list can have a lot of holes.  You can do that with G E
> (gnus-group-edit-group) from the *Group* buffer.

I just tried that command out: what do you mean by compact? Delete lines that look not worth to be kept?

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Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 28 2022, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> I just tried that command out: what do you mean by compact?

Fill the holes and coalesce so that the list is short.

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Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down

[Eric S Fraga]

On Friday, 28 Jan 2022 at 16:58, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> No, not unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing and your first
> name is either Lars or Eric. ;-)

And not even then. ;-)

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