From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41600 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: large .overview files in agentized nntp groups Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:02:51 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874rm1srjo.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: <87r8p9es7w.fsf@bang.priv.no> <871yh8emp7.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176971 7056 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4885 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 22:05:01 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 22:05:01 -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 16McSD-0006RE-00; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:04:45 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:04:37 -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 QAA10349 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:04:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 4877 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2002 22:04:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4872 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 22:04:29 -0000 Original-Received: from c96s55h3.upc.chello.no (HELO biaggi) (213.46.211.96) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 22:04:28 -0000 Original-Received: from sb by biaggi with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16McRj-000688-00; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:04:15 +0100 Original-To: In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:41:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 25 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41600 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41600 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > Steinar Bang writes: >>> Doesn't `gnus-agent-expire' delete stuff from the NOV files? >> >> I tried running that command just before deleting the NOV file, but it >> didn't change the size of the NOV file, so I guess the answer is >> "no". :-) > I tried the same just now, and the NOV files shrunk as expected. So > I'm unable to reproduce this bug. 22MB is pretty big. Maybe it's a problem that only occur with very large NOV files? There were some 9000-odd cached articles in that directory after the expiry, and that's more than a week's worth, even on no.alt.motorsykler. Maybe agent expiry has a problem with too many articles/too large a NOV file? > Looking over the code, I see that it removes all NOV lines that don't > refer to any articles in the directories... Hm... wonder why the regenerated NOV file was so small? Did it only contain the new articles?