Its worth noting that the db files are sparse, so that 10GB is likely
to be somewhat misleading (although if left to themselves they will
fill in eventually, so a regime that recreates the files occasionally
is useful).
Nigel.
On 16 Mar 2009, at 20:06, Dan_Mitton@??? wrote:
> David,
>
> Well, how big is the no disk hints db?
>
> Here are the sizes from one of my two mail servers:
>
> -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 1.3G Mar 16 13:03
> /var/spool/exim/db/retry.pag
> -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 9.9G Mar 16 13:03
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-dfr_smtp.pag
> -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 39G Mar 16 12:57
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.pag
>
>
>
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> Subject: [exim] Hints in Ram
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> Hi,
>
> I have two questions.
>
> i/ If I put the hints db in RAM what size should I make the RAM disc?
> I'm thinking along the lines of 2G. The system has more than enough
> RAM
> and could push this to 5G if needed.
>
> ii/ What happens if the RAM drive fills up?
>
> If anyone can advise me on this it would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
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