On 2-Apr-2009, at 14:10, Linda Walsh wrote:
LuKreme wrote:
On 1-Apr-2009, at 13:27, Linda Walsh wrote:
*ouch* -- you mean each message writes out an 80MB white-list
file? That's alot of I/O per message, no wonder spamd seems to be
slowing down...
Nooooo.... these are DB files. Data is added to them, this does
not necessitate rewriting the entire file.
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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(?)
Erm... You are familiar with how DB files work? Data is looked up in
them, the entire database is not read into memory. The entire point
of a DB file is to have a structure that it is relatively easy to look
up against.
The size of the database is largely irrelevant and I bet you would be
hard pressed to see much difference running with an 8MB, 80MB or 800MB
database file.
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