bogoutil -m STILL not removing "singletons"?

[David Relson]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:14:25 -0700 (PDT)
Benji Tittle <benji at tittle.net> wrote:

> 
> Armed with a better understanding of bogoutil (thanks, Chris Wilkes),
> I've tried this again... but I'm STILL don't seem to be getting
> results.
> 
> Here's the new sequence of commands & output.  I started with a
> database freshly rebuilt from my corpora.  Single wordlist.db file,
> 8224768 bytes.
> 
> $ bogoutil -d ./wordlist.db | wc -l
>  224841
> $ bogoutil -m ./wordlist.db -c1
> (c_get): Successful return: 0
> $ bogoutil -d ./wordlist.db | wc -l
>  224840
> 
> I double-count my ham, so there should be no ham singletons, but I'm
> having trouble believing that I had only ONE singleton in my entire
> spam corpus!
> 
> Size was unchanged at first.  I then compacted the database with:
> $ bogoutil -d ./wordlist.db | bogoutil -l wordlist.db.new
> 
> After compaction the db was 8220672... a reduction of only 4k.  What
> does the database compaction actually do, anyway?  Because I *did*
> compact the database before doing any of this.  Is "singleton removal"
>  an
> undocumented feature of a "-d | -l" compaction?
> 
> I should mention that the bogoutil -m command returns the "(c_get)"
> line instantly... i.e. it doesn't seem like it's actually doing
> anthing.

Benji,

This time you're right :-)  

It appears that when the database API was revised a month or so back,
some of the maintenance code got broken.  There appears to be a
conflicting use of return codes in some of the routines.  

I'll see what I can do.

David

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