From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41702 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: large .overview files in agentized nntp groups Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:16:03 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87pu4nv7bg.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: <87r8p9es7w.fsf@bang.priv.no> <871yh8emp7.fsf@bang.priv.no> <874rm1srjo.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87vgegrc7l.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177058 7557 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18230 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 22:24:04 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 22:24:04 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16NLhs-0002NR-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:23:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:23:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA01550 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:23:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12099 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2002 15:16:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12094 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 15:16:59 -0000 Original-Received: from c96s55h3.upc.chello.no (HELO biaggi) (213.46.211.96) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 15:16:59 -0000 Original-Received: from sb by biaggi with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16NF27-0007Ww-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:16:23 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?("Bj=F8rn?= Mork"'s message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:26:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 29 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41702 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41702 >>>>> "Bjørn Mork" : > It's a long time since this worked for me. Agent now downloads all > articles newer than the latest article in its database, independent > of the marks. This means that if I ever run gnus-agent-expire and > this causes a low traffic group to be completely purged, then agent > will download the entire group next time I do a fetch even if all > articles are marked read. Quite annoying :-( [snip!] > I tried to send a bug report a few months ago, but don't think > anybody noticed. If this is what I'm seeing too, then things are starting to make sense: the agent NOV file of no.alt.motorsykler weren't reduced in size, because no articles were expired. The reason no, or very few articles, were expired, was that the agent directory was filled up with new copies fetched just after the previous time I had run gnus-agent-expire, which were less than a week old. The info-cyrus behaviour I observed also seems to indicate the same thing. > I'm still not completely sure that this problem isn't caused by a > configuration error on my end since noone else have reported it. At least we seem to be two. If the maintainers can't reproduce the behaviour, maybe it'll be time to look at both our configs to see if we have an unusual config setting in common.