Yep, there's "trouble" no matter what you do. It's a matter of deciding
which sort of trouble you want. Maybe wait until you are sick of
reading news some week (it happens to all of us, right?)... and run the
rebuild -o, and then "catchup" all your newsgroups (mark all messages
are read)....
>Do you have any idea when this bug will be fixed? Aside from the 40 MB
>of space that's being wasted, Yarn is getting slower daily. It now
>takes almost ten seconds to exit this thing. :-(
First thing i'd advise is run expire -r <newsgroup.you.dont.care.about.much>
to at least free some blocks in your news.dat as soon as possible to
keep your spool from growing much when you import new articles, until
the age-out of expire -o starts kicking in again.. Maybe a big
newsgroup, like ... i donno. But a big one with lots of read messages
<-: make space in the news.dat file...
I rebuilt my newdat file a few weeks ago and have been watching it grow
steadily since. Finally today for the first time it shrunk (a tiny
bit). It's stabilising. Woo. <-: At least.
I don't know if it's a "bug" or what causes some articles to be lost
from the overview file, or what exactly is causing the phenomenon, or
when or why it occured. Maybe the .89 -> .90 spool converter did it. I
have no idea. A mere wild guess. But that's not a huge problem i don't
think. I should experiment. It might be interesting to make a backup
of my news.dat and related files and then run an expire -o setting the
days ahead so that EVERYTHING *SHOULD* expire, and see what happens...
see what's left <-:
ANyhow... it's an adventure, isn't it. Wheee.
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