> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Adam Curry <
foobar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We can still be daydream believers!
>
> > Interstingly, this install, which I've had for quite some time, does
> > not have a river2data.root!
>
> > Should I just reinstall to get the root?
>
> > AC
>
> > On Feb 29, 3:08 pm, Dave Winer <
dave.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Actually in my nightmares it's Marty Feldman in the toilet. In his role
> > of
> > > Eye-gor in Young Frankenstein.
>
> > > Something else horrible -- Davy Jones died. I thought for sure he would
> > > outlive me. (Well I never actually thought about it.)
>
> > > First thing I'm doing is doing a save-copy of my river2data.root which
> > had
> > > grown to 1.5GB. I keep forgetting to do that. Lucky I spotted it.
>
> > > I'm going to find out what's happening. It's happening here too, btw.
>
> > > Dave
>
> > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Adam Curry <
foobar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > First of all, glad you're feeling better.
>
> > > > re: toilet, biggest laugh of the day here in Austin!
>
> > > > I see that indeed feeds get 'collected' for formatting errors as well
> > > > as non connections (i.e. server not responding or jjst gone)
>
> > > > I have lots of quetions of course, but none pressing. Also, the
> > > > garbage Collection issue is not a show stopper for me, everything is
> > > > working now, but of course I haven't had to unsubscribe from any feeds
> > > > lately :-)
>
> > > > AC
>
> > > > On Feb 29, 3:02 pm, Dave Winer <
dave.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I'm going to take a look at this.
>
> > > > > Just want to point out there are other ways for feeds to get into the
> > > > > trash, not just via garbage collection.
>
> > > > > And for what it's worth I can imagine things that are more
> > horrifying,
> > > > like
> > > > > opening a toilet and finding a person down in there laughing at me.
>
> > > > > Sorry -- I've been fighting a very bad cold and it makes for weird
> > > > dreams.
> > > > > :-)
>
> > > > > Dave
>
> > > > > PS: I'm feeling better.
>
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Adam Curry <
foobar...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Looping around to this thread:
>
> >
http://groups.google.com/group/river2-users/browse_thread/thread/64e4.
> > > > ..
>
> > > > > > I have 1 server that runs rivers for several users based on opml
> > > > > > subscription lists.
>
> > > > > > One of these if my
adamfriends.com river.
>
> > > > > > I started noticing 'slow' news days. But futher inspection showed I
> > > > > > wasn't receiving items from several feeds. There's about 90 feeds
> > that
> > > > > > list alone, so it took a while, possibly weeks for me to catch on
> > that
> > > > > > it was getting worse.
>
> > > > > > I checked the server and to my horror saw that
> > > > > > config.root.river2.trash was filled with subs I indeed wasn't
> > seeing
> > > > > > items from anymore.
>
> > > > > > My roots are up to date, so something must be broken, or perhaps
> > the
> > > > > > fix Dave put in place doesn't solve some other problem that is
> > > > > > collecting these feeds as garbage incorrectly.
>
> > > > > > For now I set config.river2.prefs.flGarbageCollectFeeds to false,
> > > > > > which appears to at least not delete feeds from my list.
>
> > > > > > I tried testing this with a very small list when the issue first
> > came
> > > > > > up and feeds were not deleted immediately, so I think something
> > else
> > > > > > is hapening, but I do not know where/how to look.
>
> > > > > > AC