From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: allan gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNUs group article counts Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87ziqmgn2f.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87lh26fado.fsf@torysa.worldsendless> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466026089 24890 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2016 21:28:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:28:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 23:27:58 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bDILt-0003oD-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:27:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45193 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDILs-0007Nu-SJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDILS-0007M5-JH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDILM-0002yx-Ii for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.96]:53672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDILM-0002yr-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTP id u5FLRMNp028178 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from E7450-wired.localdomain (ool-18be5d6c.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.93.108]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.15.2/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u5FLRKKm009222 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by E7450-wired.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6EE52479B2; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87lh26fado.fsf@torysa.worldsendless> (Tory S. Anderson's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:46:43 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.96 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110452 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 15 2016, Tory S. Anderson wrote: > I have done some massive expiry work on some of my groups, to where > now an exhaustive list of messages shows something like 1100; however, > when in group view and I tell it to enter the group, it is still > telling me to choose up to 10x that number. I want to make sure I am > clearing disc space and really optimizing things; how can I make the > count correct, or do I need to do something more than expiration? The problem is that the number that is 10x is calculated as highest article number minus lowest article number So just removing articles in the middle doesn't change it. There is a "global" command that I used once (but forgot its name) that eliminates the holes in the numbers. allan