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* nnmaildir overload?
@ 2004-01-17  3:50 Rob Walker
  2004-01-19  6:26 ` Paul Jarc
  2004-01-23  7:21 ` Paul Jarc
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rob Walker @ 2004-01-17  3:50 UTC (permalink / raw)



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



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* Re: nnmaildir overload?
  2004-01-17  3:50 nnmaildir overload? Rob Walker
@ 2004-01-19  6:26 ` Paul Jarc
  2004-01-20 20:48   ` Rob Walker
  2004-01-23  7:21 ` Paul Jarc
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jarc @ 2004-01-19  6:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding

Rob Walker <rob@ladle.net> 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



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* Re: nnmaildir overload?
  2004-01-19  6:26 ` Paul Jarc
@ 2004-01-20 20:48   ` Rob Walker
  2004-01-20 21:12     ` Paul Jarc
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rob Walker @ 2004-01-20 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)



>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:49 -0500, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:

   > Rob Walker <rob@ladle.net> 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 :

This worked.  Thank you.  Are you saying that the fix needs to be made
in the nnmaildir backend?

rob



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* Re: nnmaildir overload?
  2004-01-20 20:48   ` Rob Walker
@ 2004-01-20 21:12     ` Paul Jarc
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jarc @ 2004-01-20 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding

Rob Walker <rob@ladle.net> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:49 -0500, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:
>> $ cd /home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read
>> $ touch :-new $ mv -f :-new :
>
> This worked.  Thank you.  Are you saying that the fix needs to be made
> in the nnmaildir backend?

That's what I'm going to do, when I find a spare few minutes.


paul



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* Re: nnmaildir overload?
  2004-01-17  3:50 nnmaildir overload? Rob Walker
  2004-01-19  6:26 ` Paul Jarc
@ 2004-01-23  7:21 ` Paul Jarc
  2004-01-23 14:58   ` Paul Jarc
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jarc @ 2004-01-23  7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding

Rob Walker <rob@ladle.net> wrote:
> Signaling: (file-error "Adding new name" "Too many links"

This should now be fixed in CVS, and setting marks should be a bit
faster too.


paul



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* Re: nnmaildir overload?
  2004-01-23  7:21 ` Paul Jarc
@ 2004-01-23 14:58   ` Paul Jarc
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jarc @ 2004-01-23 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding

I wrote:
> Rob Walker <rob@ladle.net> wrote:
>> Signaling: (file-error "Adding new name" "Too many links"
>
> This should now be fixed in CVS, and setting marks should be a bit
> faster too.

I should add that the new code depends on the text of strings that
show up in errors signaled by add-name-to-file.  It works for me on
GNU Emacs, but I wonder if XEmacs's strings may be different.


paul



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