Linda Walsh skrev:
Yeah -- then this refers back to the bug about there being no way to prune
that file -- it just slowly grows and needs to be read in when spamd
starts(?)
No.
The AWL is stored in a database, and spamd does not read the whole
database into memory. It just looks up and updates the address pairs as
needed.
The same principle is true for the bayes database.
So the only real harm is the increased read-initialization and the run-time
AWL length?
I don't know what you mean with "run-time AWL length", but I don't think
the time to open a Berkley DB grows much because the file grows.
What will become slower as the file grows is the database updates and to
a lesser degree the lookups.
If the AWL or bayes database grows enough for this to actually do harm,
I'd suggest moving to a SQL database (where expiration of old address
pairs is pretty easy to implement).
Regards
/Jonas
