On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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?
You did you tidydb as root, right? Since root owns this file, no other
user will be able to munge on 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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