From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78769 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Trying to enter a group: "registry max-hard size limit reached" Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:29:22 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87y62ezw59.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <877ha09a5k.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87pqnsxnud.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87tyd4b0uo.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwondanx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877h9zpsk7.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87y62fbq0b.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305023431 3689 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2011 10:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:30:31 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27070@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 10 12:30:23 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkCs-0002Tr-KM for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:30:22 +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 1QJkCi-0002u1-LS; Tue, 10 May 2011 05:30:12 -0500 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 1QJkCh-0002to-9q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 May 2011 05:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkCg-00050B-0I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 May 2011 05:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkCe-0002pA-Lc for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJkCb-0002Q0-Dv for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:30:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.24.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:30:05 +0200 Original-Received: from asjo by 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 12:30:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Brace Yourself, Diamond in the Rough (Aud Wilken) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78769 Archived-At: On Mon, 09 May 2011 15:03:32 -0500, Ted wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2011 21:44:40 +0200 Tassilo Horn wrote: TH> Why can it still be full after pruning? IMO, if I set the registry TH> size to be at maximum 1000 articles long, I'd expect it to work as a TH> LRU cache... > Yes, but rather than losing the data the user may want to raise the hard > limit. Does that mean that the registry can still be full after pruning, or not? > So we could be friendlier before `registry-prune' goes in. So "hard" should mean "medium"? Would you then add a "really hard" limit as well? I would expect a hard limit to be exactly that - the maximum that won't be exceeded. And if a stupid user, like me, sets it too low for his own good, well, tough luck, don't go frobbing variables you don't understand, kiddo. Best regards, Adam -- "Last year I was very tired." Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk