Richard Smits wrote: > Hello, > > We realy need some help here. It has come to our attention that our > bayes database is 2.4 GB big. It is really slowing down our servers > and they have a big cpu load. > > Now we have tried the trick with the sa-learn --force-expire , and it > deletes a lot of entrys, but the file is not getting any smaller. > > 79K Jun 12 09:26 bayes_journal > 20M Jun 12 09:26 bayes_toks > 2.5G Jun 12 09:26 bayes_seen* > > Does anyone has some tricks to help us out ? Spamassassin does not have any expiry for bayes_seen. Expiry only shrinks the bayes_toks file.
Starting with SA 3.0.0, it was made safe to delete it, so as Phil Randal suggested, you need to delete it. See also: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=2975
