On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Vincent Fox wrote: > I have seen squatter run more than 24 hours. > > This is on a large mail filesystem. I've seen it start up a > second one while the first is still running. Should I: > > 1) Forget about squatter > 2) Remove from cyrus.conf, run from cron every other day > 3) Find some option to cyrus.conf for same effect as #2? I squat a fraction of mailboxes each night using: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/cyrus/patches/2.3.8/squatter.patch For example: squatter -s -m 0 -M 7 would update the squat indexes for 1 in 7 mailboxes, based on modulo arithmetic on the mailbox UniqueID. squatter would really benefit from incremental updates. At the moment a single new message in a mailbox containing 20k messages causes it to read in all the existing messages in order to regenerate the index. Unfortunately, the code is rather impenetrable. I infer that it is collecting information about adjacent characters in the message body. Presumably a 5 character search term provides 4 required pairing as a prefilter from the squat engine before message by message search kicks in. -- David Carter Email: David.Carter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx University Computing Service, Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
