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Hi,
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:14:55 +0200, Thomas Wouters said:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
when i decided to have a look at the qfiles directory, I noticed that there were more than 22,000 files (yikes!) in that directory... dating back to july 17...
You'd probably do best to rename the 'qfiles' directory and create a new one, then move the remaining messages over to the new one. After storing 220000 files, your qfiles directory is likely to be a few hundred kbytes, making it very slow on access, and this can seriously hamper your machine, especially if it's a busy one. yeah it took about 15 secs for the directory to show up with a ls -l ;-(
Do it like this, after disabling qrunner in crontab and making sure none is running:
Thanks... I actually already did something like that ... with some quick'n'dirty perl scripts (maybe one day I'll use python for that ;-) ) i moved the files to the new (empty) directory in chunks, so the server didn't get loaded too much at the same time and I could remove the mailer-daemon mail...
btw i just received all the mailman-developers mail that i didn't receive since friday at once... I'm not sure if it was because of trouble with my DNS setup (which is pretty messed up sometimes) or maybe Barry emptied a mail queue or something ;)
Ricardo.
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