On Montag, 15. Mai 2006 17:01 Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> Since 209328+1347841 < 2000000, an expire wouldn't have been
> attempted opportunistically.  However, running "sa-learn
> --force-expire" would have made it happen.  

Yes, this was the cause. I have
bayes_auto_expire 0
therefore a nightly --force-expire job.

> 209328+1347841 = 1557169. 
>  Bayes will try to expire tokens down to 75% of the max number.  So
> 2000000*0.75 = 1500000, which means it saw that it should try to
> expire 1557169-1500000 = 57169 tokens.

That would have been expected.

> If the previous expire looks similar to this expire run, Bayes will
> use an estimate for atime to do the expire.  This speeds things up,
> but also could possibly be wrong (it is an estimate afterall).  So if
> an estimate was used, up to 1557169-100000 tokens (100k is a safety
> net) could be expired.

I still don't understand the reason for that. Wouldn't it be bad to 
throw away that many tokens?

mfg zmi
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