Re: large .overview files in agentized nntp groups

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> No, it's only supposed to download the ticked and unread articles.

What about the NOV file?  Will it contain entries for the missing
articles?

>> This is what seemed to happen when I agentized the anonymous
>> info-cyrus group on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu.

> Hm...  Is this reproducible?

I don't know.  I'd say not to spend too much time on it.  This case,
as the no.alt.motorsykler problem, may just by my little old laptop
croaking on too large NOV files.

In any case, for the record, this is what I did:

 - added
	(nnimap "cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu"
		(nnimap-authenticator anonymous)
		(nnimap-list-pattern "archive.*")
		(nnimap-stream network))
   to gnus-secondary-select-methods

 - started Gnus with `M-x gnus-unplugged RET'

 - entered the server buffer, and pressed SPC on cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu

 - did a `c' on nnimap+cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu:archive.info-cyrus to
   catchup all the 10000-odd unread articles

 - did a `C-u 5000 SPC' on the group, and ticked the some of the
   articles with debian in the Subject fields

 - the next day, when there were 16 new unread articles in the group,
   I went into the server buffer, and put the server under agent
   control 

 - I then started downloading of articles for all groups, using 
   `JjgJsJj'

 - The machine was still working when I went to bed, and the next
   morning, I saw that it had failed somewhere, with the same kind of
   input/output error prompt I got from the 22MB NOV file of
   no.alt.motorsykler.  The prompt message didn't show up in the
   *Message* buffer, so I didn't save it

 - The agent directory for the group had heaps of articles (a lot more
   than 16 or 20 or 24 or whatever), and when I did less on them, they
   were unreleated to what I was.  When I looked at the NOV file, it
   looked bogus.  All articles had an XRef to an nnimap group on a
   different server.  So I deleted the NOV file, the .agentview file,
   and all downloaded articles

So unfortunately I've once more succeeded in erasing all tracks of
what happens. :-)