Re: [exim] Does exim_tidydb need to be run in cron?

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Lähettäjä: Michael Haardt
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Aihe: 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.

Michael