From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69064 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Trouble with gnus-agent-expire Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:19:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87ab0ekhc2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <873a6724wb.fsf@newsguy.com> <871vlricl0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ljjy3ojy.fsf@newsguy.com> <87k4ziantz.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254165592 23485 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 19:19:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17481@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 28 21:19:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MsLl9-0001b7-RN for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:19:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MsLl1-0002Q3-AT; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:19:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MsLl0-0002Pm-2J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MsLky-0007cC-Bs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MsLla-0006yk-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8760779D75; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:19:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:19:29 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: vWKS4rSrTVsQgNzxOsIGCyCE+P83bpKJ8NYscwmCS/oz 1254165568 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF2D8C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.45.140]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5484F1785E; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:19:27 -0400 (EDT) Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87k4ziantz.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:09:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69064 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: Hi Harry, >> No, but doing so now... it shows version 5.13. Its running now and >> chewing up between 94-99 percent of cpu. No messages show up in echo >> areas it just shows my last command: >> >> M-x gnus-agent-expire >> >> Its been running for 5 minutes already... doesn't look too promising > > I let it run for 15 minutes... it didn't do anything but chew up > resources. > > What can I do to get the expiration to happen? Dunno, I cannot reproduce your problem. But the expiry process usually prints a lot of messages to the *Messages* buffer, like those. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 20090928T211329.614> Expiring articles in nntp+Uni:alt.religion.emacs 20090928T211329.616> gnus-agent-expire: Loading overview... 20090928T211329.617> gnus-agent-expire: Loading overview... Done 20090928T211329.618> gnus-agent-expire: Sorting entries... 20090928T211329.619> gnus-agent-expire: Sorting entries... Done 20090928T211329.620> gnus-agent-expire: Merging entries... 20090928T211329.620> gnus-agent-expire: Merging entries... Done --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Maybe it works for some initial groups and then gets stuck in some group? Then something is probably broken with that group's files and deleting them and redownloading only that group would solve the issue. But I have to admit that I don't have a deeper understanding of the agent. For me it just work... :-) Bye, Tassilo