message delivery eating disk space ..
Hi,
I have a Virtual private server (Fedora, 256 RAM, 10 GB HDD). I'm hosting an announcement list of about 15,000 addresses. I noticed that each time I post a message to the list, the free disk space (command: df -h) is decreasing even after mailman finishes delivering all the messages. I had to reprovision the server and format the hard drive twice and restore my data when the disk is full!
is there a kind of temporary files that mailman doesn't cleanup? what can I do?
Thanks
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faisal anif wrote:
I have a Virtual private server (Fedora, 256 RAM, 10 GB HDD). I'm hosting an announcement list of about 15,000 addresses. I noticed that each time I post a message to the list, the free disk space (command: df -h) is decreasing even after mailman finishes delivering all the messages. I had to reprovision the server and format the hard drive twice and restore my data when the disk is full!
Did you go in and actually check to see which directory hierarchy was using up the disk space? It's kind of hard to solve a problem if you don't actually look to see what the cause is.
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faisal anif wrote:
is there a kind of temporary files that mailman doesn't cleanup? what can I do?
No. The only files are the queue files which hold the message as it is processed and the archives. The queue files are removed when message processing is complete.
As Brad says, you need to actually check to see which directory hierarchy was using up the disk space?
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Well, I noticed that there are files in the : /var/lib/mailman/data/bounce-events-*****.pck
where ***** are numbers ..
considering their sizes (3-50MBs) they aren't that bad but with time, they pile up and fill the disk space.. is it safe to delete these files?
Thanks..
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:28:29 -0700> From: mark@msapiro.net> To: faisalanif@hotmail.com; mailman-users@python.org> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] message delivery eating disk space ..> > faisal anif wrote:> > > >is there a kind of temporary files that mailman doesn't cleanup? what can I do?> > > No. The only files are the queue files which hold the message as it is> processed and the archives. The queue files are removed when message> processing is complete.> > As Brad says, you need to actually check to see which directory> hierarchy was using up the disk space?> > -- > Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,> San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan>
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faisal anif wrote:
Well, I noticed that there are files in the : /var/lib/mailman/data/bounce-events-*****.pck
where ***** are numbers ..
considering their sizes (3-50MBs) they aren't that bad but with time, they pile up and fill the disk space.. is it safe to delete these files?
They should not be accumulating. There should never be more than 2, or if you run multiple sliced qrunners, never more than the number of OutgoingRunner slices + BounceRunner slices.
See <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-October/063746.html> for a recent post with more detail.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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