From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84186 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Long wait for "Expiring Articles..." Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:36:38 -0800 Message-ID: <87fvnye3x5.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <87zjm73ljq.fsf@building.gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391564277 30688 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2014 01:37:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 01:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: "Jason L Tibbitts III" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32438@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 05 02:38:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WArR8-0000Y6-Ak for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:37:58 +0100 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 1WArR6-00039G-HG; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:37:56 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WArR5-000393-Df for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:37:55 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WArR4-0005Ib-B5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:37:55 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WArR3-00041v-1G for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:37:53 +0100 Original-Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WArQp-0005uu-5j; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:37:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Jason L. Tibbitts, III's message of "Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:34:02 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1WArQp-0005uu-5j MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1392169059.74577@2x5zJ3WiqaNnzqYsrRkMYQ X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84186 Archived-At: "Jason L Tibbitts III" writes: > And, to continue talking to myself, I learned about the debugger and > stepped into gnus-request-expire-articles. Turns out this just gets > called with a nice big list containing the positive integers from 1 to > 260000 or so. Which explains why it takes so long to run. Doesn't > explain why Gnus seems to not be keeping track of, or asking the server > for, the actual number of articles in the group which according to > previous discussion it's supposed to do. It sounds like the expiry function hasn't been made aware of the "unexist" tracking. I'll have a look. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/