From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56099 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmaildir overload? Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:49 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87k73r44is.fsf@ladle.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074493634 23056 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 06:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 06:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4639@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 19 07:27:11 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 1AiSsQ-0007ol-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:27:11 +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 1AiSsG-0006wv-00; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:27:00 -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 1AiSs8-0006wp-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:26:52 -0600 Original-Received: from harris.CNS.CWRU.Edu (harris.CNS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.104.63]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43663A0027 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:26:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.smtp-a.cwru.edu by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) id <0HRQ00A014CVUO@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HRQ00AQF4KPUL@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 22763 invoked by uid 500); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 06:27:11 +0000 In-reply-to: <87k73r44is.fsf@ladle.net> Original-To: Rob Walker Mail-Followup-To: Rob Walker , ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 15 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56099 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56099 Rob Walker wrote: > I have a single mailing list which had over 16000 messages in it. The actual limit is NLINK_MAX, which varies from system to system. > 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") I know how to fix this; hopefully I'll get to it soon. For now, you can work around it like this: $ cd /home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read $ touch :-new $ mv -f :-new : paul