Re: Mhonarc problems at mail-archive.com

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@columbia.edu>]

Thanks, Earl. I only hope the guys at mail-archive.com (hiya!) can put 2.5
back in as soon as they straighten out some of the performance issues. I
guess my other question is what would be the simplest way to re-build the
date index after they do that (taking notes, fellows?).


On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Earl Hood wrote:

> On November 10, 2001 at 11:38, Louis N Proyect wrote:
> 
> > Earl, I am not sure what you mean by being at a loss. Perhaps I did not
> > express myself clearly enough. This is not exactly a 'footer' problem in
> 
> At a certain level, it is, even if you did not use HEADER and FOOTER
> since MHonArc processed the main index as if there is always could be a
> header and/or footer.  I.e.  It edits the main index instead of
> rewriting as is done with the thread index.  Notice how the problem you
> see never occurs with thread indexes?
> 
> In v2.5, MHonArc completely rewrites a main index page.
> 
> I never figured out a case in earlier releases that could replicate
> the "growing index" problem everytime, so it made it hard to
> figure out what may be the culprit.  My hunch is it is something
> with perl I/O.  It is like the file handle does not get completely
> flushed when the file is closed.
> 
> --ewh
>