On 11/11/09 10:43 +0100, Andre Brandt wrote: >Hi, > >last night, after an accident, my mailserver ran out of space within >half an hour. After solving the problem, I thought, that the problem was >gone. What I didn't know was, that, after solving the original problem, >cyrus started to create more than 6600 files unter /var/lib/cyrus/db. >(log.00000xxxx) Each file with a size of 10mb. >After starting cyrus again, I can see, that ctl_cyrusdb recovers the >database. But this takes a _very_ long time.... :( > >As I found in documentation, files under /var/lib/cyrus/db can be safely >deleted, when no cyrus process is running - is this right? What are this >files for? What kind of information do they contain? How can It happen, >that cyrus writes more than 70 GB of logs? When the server has nearly no >work to do? Andre, See the database-formats.html file located in the source distribution, also found here: http://tinyurl.com/yzn8wke -- Dan White ---- 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
