From: Ted Stern <stern+gnus@cray.com>
Subject: Re: Dribble file getting huge
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:58:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yccmzq07k18.fsf@monkeypuzzle.wc.cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qlkacm1ixsd.fsf@thym.ens.fr>
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On 7 Jun 2005 at 15:53 UTC-0700, Gaëtan LEURENT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read some local newsgroup with about 200 messages per day, and with no
> expiration; my .newrc-servername.eld gets quite big (around 1MB) but
> everything works fine. The problem is that I usually let my Gnus run for
> weeks, and then the group informations are written hundreds of time in
> the dribble file, which grows to hundreds of megabytes, and so emacs
> eats that much memory and gets a lot slower ...
>
> I don't want to set gnus-use-dribble-file to nil because that would be a
> lot of trouble if Gnus crashes after a week. Is there any way to get the
> benefits of the dribble file without this annoying memory problem ?
>
> I tried
> (add-hook 'gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook 'gnus-save-newsrc-file)
> (add-hook 'gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook 'gnus-dribble-clear)
> wich seems to work fine, but I'm not sure this really saves everything.
>
> Maybe a solution would be to make gnus-dribble-enter smarter so that it
> removes the old (gnus-server-set-info ...) before writing the new one ...
>
> I'm using Gnus 5.11 in emacs CVS.
These work for me. Dribble never gets bigger than a few hundred bytes.
(add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-dribble-save)
(add-hook 'gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook 'gnus-dribble-save)
(add-hook 'gnus-group-catchup-group-hook 'gnus-dribble-save)
(add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-group-save-newsrc)
--
Ted Stern
Frango ut patefaciam -- I break so that I may reveal
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2005-06-07 22:53 Gaëtan LEURENT
2005-06-08 18:58 ` Ted Stern [this message]
2005-06-08 20:58 ` Gaëtan LEURENT
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2005-06-06 23:15 dribble " Gaëtan LEURENT
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