On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:29:41PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> > 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?

The reason for the estimate, or ...?  It may or may not be bad to throw
away that many tokens, it depends.  A larger number of tokens in the DB
doesn't necessarily mean better accuracy.

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