Re: cleanup

Brian Burton <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:09:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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k b wrote:
> The readme says this about the cleanup function:
> 
> Scans the database and removes all terms with junk_count or less
>    (default 2) which have not had their counts modified in at least
>    max_age days (default 7).
> 
> What is junk_count defined as?
> is it the spam_count (I assumed this, since spam is junk),
> or is it the token's total count?

Sorry it wasn't more clear in the documentation.  I need to change it to 
something like this:

cleanup [max_count min_age]...
     Scans the database and removes all terms with a total count (good
     plus spam count) of max_count or less (default 2) which have not
     had their counts modified in at least min_age days (default 7).
     You can specify multiple count/age pairs on a single command line
     but must specify both a count and an age for all but the last count.
     This should be run periodically to keep the database from growing
     endlessly.

The default value of 2 is good for catching unique terms (most terms 
found by SP turn out to be unique but SP doesn't know in advance which 
ones will be).  To really scrub your database you might want to use a 
much higher number with a long number of days.  Something like this to 
clean out all terms with total count <= 100,000 not seen in 6 months 
might be a good idea:

   spamprobe cleanup 100000 180

All the best,
++Brian

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