From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42906 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Possible problem with bookmarks in CVS Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:22:08 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178085 14701 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:28:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8434 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2002 20:24:11 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 2002 20:24:11 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Xpeh-0007VK-00; Mon, 04 Feb 2002 14:23:59 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 04 Feb 2002 14:23:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA21808 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:22:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8411 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2002 20:22:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8405 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2002 20:22:15 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Feb 2002 20:22:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10564 invoked by uid 50); 4 Feb 2002 20:22:08 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42906 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42906 Not sure if this may have already been fixed, but I figured I'd report it just in case. A few days ago, I discovered that my newsrc.eld file had suddenly become over 1MB in size rather than its normal size of a bit under 100KB. After investigating, I found that in two groups I had bookmarks on articles (which had since been marked read, but not expired) and that bookmark information looked like it was being duplicated exponentially each time I'd entered the group and then left it again. In other words, newsrc.eld contained stuff like (wrapped for readability): ("nnml:save.writing.complex" 2 ((1 . 2178)) ((bookmark (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) [...] (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224) (2086 . 224)) (reply 249 251 259 270 299 314 332 367 370 377 381 384 (386 . 387) 392 396 403 413 419 423 525 562 666 720 816 922 1114 1118 1333 1468 1688 1841 1963)) continuing on for some 200KB in one group and 700KB in another (that I read more frequently). Each time I pressed B M on the article, it did remove one instance of the bookmark from newsrc.eld, but obviously that would have taken far too long to fix that way. I eventually resorted to editing newsrc.eld to remove the whole bookmark form and that fixed it (well, the first time it just pulled it all back in from the .marks file, but the second time I also deleted the .marks file and that did it). I've not tried using a bookmark since, so I don't know if this bug still exists. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)