Questions about ctl_cyrusdb

[Dan White]

On 11/11/09 10:43 +0100, Andre Brandt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>last night, after an accident, my mailserver ran out of space within 
>half an hour. After solving the problem, I thought, that the problem was 
>gone. What I didn't know was, that, after solving the original problem, 
>cyrus started to create more than 6600 files unter /var/lib/cyrus/db. 
>(log.00000xxxx) Each file with a size of 10mb.
>After starting cyrus again, I can see, that ctl_cyrusdb recovers the 
>database. But this takes a _very_ long time.... :(
>
>As I found in documentation, files under /var/lib/cyrus/db can be safely 
>deleted, when no cyrus process is running - is this right? What are this 
>files for? What kind of information do they contain? How can It happen, 
>that cyrus writes more than 70 GB of logs? When the server has nearly no 
>work to do?

Andre,

See the database-formats.html file located in the source distribution, also
found here:

http://tinyurl.com/yzn8wke

-- 
Dan White