From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68380 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: large NOV files Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:15:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87k567nzgw.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238404614 4712 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2009 09:16:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:16:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16818@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Mar 30 11:18:13 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 1LoDd8-0004Ry-3w for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:18:06 +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 1LoDav-0005mM-Dt; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:15:49 -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 1LoDat-0005m8-OW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LoDao-0006k9-4l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LoDbC-0008L6-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:16:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LoDak-0007G9-6M for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:15:38 +0000 Original-Received: from i59f5693b.versanet.de ([89.245.105.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:15:38 +0000 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f5693b.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:15:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f5693b.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68380 Archived-At: Many of my newsgroups have large NOV files, e.g.: /home/steve/.emacs.d/News/agent/nntp/news.gmane.org/gmane/linux/suse/opensuse/user: total used in directory 33408 available 6766464 drwxr-xr-x 2 steve users 4096 2009-03-30 10:47 . drwxr-xr-x 8 steve users 4096 2009-03-30 10:47 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 711586 2009-03-29 17:15 .agentview -rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 33445034 2009-03-29 17:15 .overview In these groups only a fairly small number of articles are ticked, so I can see them immediately. I have the impression that the size of the NOV file slows down the response of Gnus in these groups, but I have found no way to reduce its size and keep the ticks. If I delete the NOV file, the ticked articles disappear. Using either gnus-cache-generate-nov-databases or nnml-generate-nov-databases does not reduce the size of the NOV files. Is there any way to do this and keep the ticked articles? This with Gnus from GNU Emacs 23.0.91.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4) of 2009-03-15 on escher. Steve Berman