How big is too big for wordlist.db?

[Christian Ebert]

* hput on Saturday, October 09, 2021 at 10:25:10 -0400:
> setup: Ubuntu-21.04
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5470  @ 3.33GHz  32GB ram
> 
> For a long time user of bogofilter yet quite a novice with any real
> skill in using it or adjusting... etc.
> 
> Having a 27 MB wordlist.db seems to slow down mail processing to a
> some degree.
> 
>   ls -sh .bogofilter/
> total 27M
> 27M wordlist.db
> 
> 
> I'd like to know how big is really getting up there with wordlist.db?
> And the simplest way to reduce its size?

Did you try running bf_compact?
https://bogofilter.sourceforge.io/faq.shtml#compact-database

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