On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:48:40PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
>>> Lars Lindner wrote:
>> Nonetheless I identified the problem. You do massively mark posts
>> as important (flagged). Which is not forbidden, but was totally
>> unexpected by me when I implemented the merging algorithm.
>
> Heh :-) . I usually do that so I can come back to them at any time I want 
> to do read about the subject of the post. Is a way of archiving for me 
> (since I saw is he only way to make liferea keep those posts from being 
> lost into nothingness).
>
>> Flagged items do have the property of never being dropped from
>
> Which is good :-), from my PoV.
>
>> cache, but at the same moment we have a cache limit that the merging
>> algorithm has to cope with. And the current calculation is simple: if the
>> cache limit is 100 (like in your case and per default) and there are 100
>> (or more) flagged items that must never be dropped, then there is just
>> no room to add new items.
>
> kaboom :-)
>
>> As a temporary workaround you should increase the cache limit for
>> all affected feeds (like the Debian Planet feed).
>
> I have, but it seems it already "lost" some of the items of the day... 
> I'll probably change the limit first, then upgrade once more to the new 
> format ;-) .

If this works for you, please let me know. I'll then downgrade this
report's severity but leave it open as a hint for others.

> (BTW, I'll probably send another BR about it disrupting with my desire to 
> have low battery consumption since it does polling and wakes up the CPU 
> rather often.)

Does it? We had a round of updates back in 1.2 dealing with this. According
to powertop we got down to a rather acceptable level, IIRC.

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