Author: Michael Haardt Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Does exim_tidydb need to be run in cron?
> > The manual is very vague about the _real_ need to run tidydb. >
> I will try to add some words. I suspect that in practice, if you never
> run tidydb, the hints files will grow to a certain size and then
> probably stay there, simply because there is some finite set of hosts to
> which your users send email. However, somebody needs to do the
> experiment to verify this...
I did once, although not intentionally. Your guess is right, but tidydb
is helpful in keeping the storage requirement lower. Particularly useful
with memory fileystems.
