Re: MPeo being very slow debatching.

Peter Young  wrote on 15 Jan:
> This is with MPro 2.24 and NetFetch 4.00 on an ARMX6 running RISC OS
> 5.23, RComp version.

MPro 2.24 is ancient; are you sure you quoted the correct version 
number?  Mine is 7.08.

> ... a lengthy wait from the disappearance of the Hermes download
> window before messages appear in MPro. I've just downloaded only an
> automated acknowledgement message of 3788 bytes, and this took
> thirteen seconds to appear. This problem has happened only recently;
> ...

Could be the prob that plagued me for months back in 2013. (See thread 
"debatch freezes" in this ng, 2013-15.)

Have a look at the folder !Newsdir.Msgserve.Backup where you will find 
a subfolder for each mailbox that you fetch from your ISP(s).  From 
the filer menu, do a Count on each of these subfolders (Ctrl-N if you 
have Martin Avison's Quickfiler).

None of the subfolders should contain more than 72 files.

I can't remember how I finally twigged to this, but my "debatch 
freezes" problem went away when I deleted the oldest files from within 
each subfolder, to bring the count under 72. (Having first 
spot-checked that the contents had indeed already been debatched into 
the correct places in MPro.)

My theory is that MPro is meant to keep the count at 72 automatically, 
but that some unforeseenitude occasionally lets it go above 72 and 
then MPro gets into a loop; maybe it's as simple as a line of code 
testing for n=72 rather than n>=72, but what do I know.

I did mention it to R-Comp, albeit I failed to use one of Druck's 
Official Bug Report forms.   ;=}
If you discover that you too have an n>72 situation, we can 
collaborate and do a D.OBR now.

-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk

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