From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56795 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Expire message meaning? Hangs quite a long time Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:05:38 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <8665cv60a2.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080090422 17009 80.91.224.253 (24 Mar 2004 01:07:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5334@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 24 02:06:56 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 1B5wr9-0005Ls-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 02:06:55 +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 1B5wqI-0004Fn-00; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:06:02 -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 1B5wqA-0004Fh-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:05:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8143A003F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:05:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5wq8-0006Yo-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 02:05:52 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-midsouth-24-172-86-250.biz.rr.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1080090352 23932 24.172.86.250 (24 Mar 2004 01:05:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:05:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sy2dS7JSEmWzLssZ/Pim3dGgClY= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56795 Chris Shenton writes: > After finishing reading a group and upon going to the next, I > sometimes see a message like the following in the mode line: > > Expiry recovered 23 NOV entries, deleted 0 files, and freed 5.457031 KB. > > What's this mean, specifically the 5.457031 KB. If that's truly a > fractional amount, I want to know what 0.031 bytes looks like, it's > about a quarter of a single bit. 1KB = 1024 bytes 5.457031[25] * 1024 = 5588 The [25] digits aren't shown in the message due to the format. > If the dot is being used to separate > thousands or millions, European style rather than US style, then it's > claiming to have freed over 5GB. I'm confused. > > What's really bothering me is that upon displaying this msg, Gnus > freezes up for something like 30-60 seconds; I can't do anything. > Is it really working, or is this some delay to allow puny humans to > read a transient message? That's interesting. If gnus was freezing up due to agent expiration, the 30-60 delay should occur before the message appears. You could try this. M-x toggle-debug-on-quit When emacs next freezes, type cntl-g to enter the debugger. Copy the contents of the debugger buffer to a scratch buffer then type 'c' to continue execution. Once gnus recovers, post the debug information. > I'm running No Gnus v0.2 from CVS about a week ago, and have seen this > for maybe a month or two with various CVS versions. Kevin