From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83599 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-agent-expire seems to expire more messages than it should? Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:48:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fw1tkb9a.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375393768 3379 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 21:49:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:49:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31857@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Aug 01 23:49:28 2013 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 1V50kS-0002n4-DR for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:49:28 +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 1V50jX-0004Ot-W4; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:48:32 -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 1V50jW-0004Oh-Se for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1V50jV-00051u-MN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V50jU-0004FO-B2 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:48:28 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58] helo=stories.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V50jK-0006wq-2t for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:48:18 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEUVFRROZJEFBAkwNCkB AQSmwvQLCQxqhNKFAs3PAAACM0lEQVQ4jXVSwYrbMBB9Gxf12hCWXI0qdFYQm/OiFb6XYnwdFDN3 U7b5/b5xsummu30Y2Z43895oJGzfY3++Abfg+R4rsXyMv+KjyI3Yb5fzB4xY/s29FIz4LPx/4nU6 f06M58+IcRynZXdHvI6jhcdxycC7vBuWbASN7qLj+CvBCaaLxBUTdzV1SVVxn/wz57wA7l9iorjl +xjfiB+P65q7hNY8QWKy1N3TpSI53XhfiwdFH9hgwn7ZL9sdZbTVWgsEAGV+d/mQDtQXEsUqINrl R/be5ZwAX7zMNTYP1ejkaTngRF8S1dc6wAhBLw8cwRo/yqy1RuvKRUWPnFqPhIzDzJboHSFBcTp0 edPB8DB31Tc6IaoTxdetE8dRiJt7XzVQqkSViMctV4qqa+7qESVBWwffe6ZwfN6HaoTKt0gVF/xA C6F04PZIsK4qWgh0IuFKay2ax6B2Kq2U2oRxx2xrysN7qf4ZGkovLgotomkpNWXmbpQt9jRP8c08 FG3RaRtKZE9wPtgx+YZQOZxQavCqtKWUncba1cwv/vGg2xBR1zhHMrS5rUmFRGyyxgMJbwWNm3Pt +Yv4tlbYCQrWb5VNeDnSXS2RQLfhGkwqnvIhQ5ILK+EuCcMsPEfCrg33X1hK69LKBha6wC4Gcuvr i3dd5rPieHmhE/Ywn1LGKe+yPVci1TDXEKnznRomYZVJcJzXi0SJk1LG1FNy6GD3rzPj4+7qznvN Mf9tJa9KtnKQvf4BmFQp3VX66WUAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Now-Playing: Various's _The Silence Was Warm Vol. 4_: "Maps and Diagrams - Glossolalia" X-Hashcash: 1:23:130801:ding@gnus.org::d2YpIczM08YhlV7b:0000F/2/ In-Reply-To: <87fw1tkb9a.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:30:33 +1030") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1V50jK-0006wq-2t MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1375998498.29497@jCiKwW0kSHhC8gnbzRf/VA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83599 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > at some point recently, I realised that my agent directory was using up > over 2GB. Not a big deal, as such, but I thought I could clean things > up a little. I had a look at gnus-agent-expire and realised that > expiration of articles did not necessarily clean up the agent cache. So > I executed this function. Success: I freed up a lot of space. > > However, I seem to have freed up rather more than I expected. I have > > ,----[ C-h v gnus-agent-expire-all RET ] > | gnus-agent-expire-all is a variable defined in `gnus-agent.el'. > | Its value is nil [...] > which tells me that only *read* articles would be expired. The gnus > agent seems to have expired all kinds of read articles as well, > essentially behaving as if I had set gnus-agent-expire-all to something > other than nil. Hm. I've looked at the code, and it seems to be respecting `gnus-agent-expire-all' as it should. Do you have lots and lots of unread articles, or do you mean something else by "unread"? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) No Gnus T-Shirt for sale: http://ingebrigtsen.no/no.php