On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, EXIM Users wrote:
>
> Is this normal for a wait- file in our spool/db directory?
>
> -rw-r----- 1 root other 3715697664 Jun 10 11:15
> wait-outgoing_smtp.pag
>
> the OS reports it as 3.7GB but only 2.5GB is actually used on the disk...
That's because .pag files often contain "holes".
> I've run exim_tidydb against this file and nothing has changed. I'm not sure
> if it's really an issue or not? Should I just delete the hint files and let
> exim rebuild them or ignore it?
That does seem huge. Here, I rarely see a .pag file greater than 1MB.
Running exim_tidydb removes old entries, which makes their space
available for reuse, but it doesn't actually reduce the size of the
file.
I would try deleting it (and its corresponding .dir file) and keep an
eye on the size it grows to afterwards. Make sure you run exim_tidydb
regularly.
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