On 18/02/14 15:49, Mark Martinec wrote:
> One server in each continent might be acceptable, but hasn't
> been tried.

Yeah, in fact I can separate into Europe and US (responsible for
different domains), so two Redis makes more sense.

> No corruption can happen due to network problems. Cases where some
> but not all tokens are learned, or tokens learned but 'seen' entry
> not added are non-problematic if it doesn't happen too often.
> Token updates usually fit within a single IP packet, so in most
> cases either all of the transaction gets committed or none,
> even in case of network problems.

My definition of "corruption" is when it causes the app to be unhappy -
not necessarily that the data is corrupt :-) Obviously a TCP packet
either arrives and passes checksum or it's thrown away. Your last
sentence answers my question - network outages shouldn't cause the Bayes
data to become useless to SA - good

>
> A full network breakdown (or server down) would cause SpamAssassin
> to log warnings for each mail message, but will move on anyway,
> just without Bayes checks. 

Yep - that's fine. I think it'll be worth a shot :-)

Thanks!

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Jason Haar
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