On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, RW wrote:
I do wonder whether there's any real-basis to the idea that autoexpiry
isn't "industrial-strength". I don't use expiry any more, but when I
did, it didn't seem like a big deal at 200,000 tokens, and it's O(N) so
millions of tokens shouldn't be too bad either.
In practice it _is_ problematic.
We fairly often get queries to the list about why someone is seeing scan
timeouts and scads of expiry work files in the bayes directory; the cause
is that auto-expiry is taking longer than some timer is willing to wait
for spamd to complete, so the auto-expiry never completes. The standard
answer is to turn off auto-expiry and expire weekly or daily from cron.
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