Re: consistant failures on a new kind of spam

On 15 Nov 2006, Chris Ross wrote:
> 
[snip] 
>    I looked at my Berkeley DB database file, and it's nearly 550 MB.   
> I did a dump|wc -l, which by the way too *quite* a while, and it  
> indicates shortly over 7.9 million terms.  heh!  So, a good time to  
> clean out some old terms.  I ran a "cleanup 100 90", which too about  
> 20 minutes to complete.  After that, another dump | wc (which took 10  
> minutes this time.  Sadly, I forgot to time it the first time.)  
> showed I'd dropped to 1.33 million terms.  Hmm, wonder if I should've  
> used a smaller number than 100?
[snip] 

Much of this discussion is above my head; I'm left a little confused.
I'm using a pbl database and it's cleaned nightly via crontab (spamprobe
cleanup 2 24). The database grows only very slowly and is currently
28MB. Efficiency seems pretty good and, as noted previously, most of the
"funny" spams are now being caught.

Question: am I cleaning too frequently? Would weekly be better?


Anthony

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