Author: John W. Baxter Date: To: Exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file
On 6/3/05 5:05 AM, "John Horne" <John.Horne@???> wrote:
> What I couldn't understand was why this suddenly started - literally
> about 30 mins ago. The server had been running and sending/receiving
> mail for the past few days. Looking at /var/spool/exim/scan showed it
> had over 30,000 directories in it! These dated back to when the system
> basically came on-line. It seemed that the errors were because the
> directory was too big - there is bags of disk space available before
> anyone asks! Next thought was that exim/SA wasn't deleting the
> directories for some reason.
Out of inodes? (If using a filesystem which suffers from that.) You didn't
say what was in the 30,000 directories.
