Re: spam.el is a bit aggressive loading/saving spam-stat data

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Fri Mar 07 2003 at 08:38, Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> said:

> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>
>> It takes roughly 20-30 seconds to load my spam-stat file.
>> Is this a reasonable duration, or am I doing something
>> wrong?
>
> It takes ~5 seconds for me. But that does not necessarily mean that
> there's anything wrong with your setup. I guess the more mails you
> receive and use for training, the bigger the spam-stat file gets.

I get around 100-200 spams a day, which, amazingly, is entirely
manageable with the new spam-aware gnus.

Meanwhile,

   File size: (nth 7 (file-attributes spam-stat-file)) => 928737
   Number of words: (hash-table-count spam-stat) => 60066

   Reduce table size: (spam-stat-reduce-size)
   Save table: (spam-stat-save)
   File size: (nth 7 (file-attributes spam-stat-file)) => 261781
   Number of words: (hash-table-count spam-stat) => 17144

1 - Perhaps the table size reduction could be automated in a hook at some
daily gnus event (I quit gnus each day when I leave the office, so
that would be a reasonable time for me).  I'll try this today:

(add-hook 'gnus-exit-gnus-hook 'spam-stat-reduce-size 'spam-stat-save)

2 - Would it help to byte-compile spam-stat-file?

Cheers -

bw
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