From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56081 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Walker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnmaildir overload? Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:50:51 -0800 Organization: home net Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k73r44is.fsf@ladle.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074451114 24737 80.91.224.253 (18 Jan 2004 18:38:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4620@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 18 19:38:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiHoW-0004Ie-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:38:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AiHo0-0004ss-00; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:37:52 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AhhTz-0008WD-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:50:47 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526B03A004E for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:50:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhhTy-00008c-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:50:46 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-169-21-18.client.comcast.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1074311446 533 67.169.21.18 (17 Jan 2004 03:50:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:50:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:smR0xayvOo4hTFXaChBvm+XiaEg= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56081 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56081 I have a single mailing list which had over 16000 messages in it. When I exited the group I couldn't exit, getting a 14k error message. The first two line of it are as follows: Signaling: (file-error "Adding new name" "Too many links" "/home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read/:" "/home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read/1073931271_0.18828.tp600x,U=17123,FMD5=691287df477cdb411b6f056cb0287f3a") add-name-to-file("/home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read/:" "/home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read/1073931271_0.18828.tp600x,U=17123,FMD5=691287df477cdb411b6f056cb0287f3a") I moved a bunch of messages to a folder called mail.lists.evals.2001, which cut down the number of messages in my main list considerably. However, I still cannot exit the group. I get the same error. What should I do? For now I am simply not reading that list with gnus. rob