On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Dan Barker wrote:

> Autoexpire will keep the db size approximately constant, even when
> your totals get higher. Otherwise, it would grow without bound.
> Disk is cheap, but not free!

Yabbut time can become *very* expensive.

I don't know if there's a consensus or not among listmembers, but we 
regularly see someone wondering why things are all clogged up when 
autoexpire reaches the point that it takes longer to expire old 
tokens than the process that's trying to filter messages in real time 
is willing to wait...

It would probably be safer to schedule a manual expire run nightly via 
cron, and leave autoexpire turned off.

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