Delayed expunge ON by default?
Rob Mueller
robm at fastmail.fm
Sun Feb 19 23:30:54 EST 2006
> My question: Did anybody using delayed expunge have any problem with it?
As the people (FastMail) who sponsored the development of this code, we've
been using it for over a year now with no problems at all. It's been great.
The performance improvement can be quite significant. Trying to empty a
large folder with 10,000+ messages previouly could take minutes, now takes
seconds. We then schedule the run of the cyr_expire process during our
non-peak time.
Also it does allow much better backups. We schedule our incremental backups
to run each day with a 2 day expiry time on the actual cyr_expire, which
means apart from deleted folders, our backups include ALL messages that have
ever passed through a users folders. David mentioned that his original
expunge patches actually even allowed for the delete folder case (silently
turned into a rename), which I think would be a nice future improvement so
that you can guarantee a backup of every message, every day.
Rob
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