Get cyrus-imap folder size without "du" tool

[David Touzeau]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 19:13 +0200, David Touzeau wrote:
>>     
>>> Joe Vieira wrote:
>>>       
>>>> if they are all on one partition and nothing else is on that you could
>>>> just use df ....
>>>> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:28 -0400, David Touzeau wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> This problem occurs when you have more than 50Go mailboxes
>>>>> If you launch a "du -h -s /var/spool/cyrus/mail" the server load is on
>>>>> top and I/O is at 100% for a long time.
>>>>> Is somebody have a tips to get the size status of all maiboxes without
>>>>> using du tool even no quota is specified ?
>>>>>           
>>> Thanks for the reply but the directory is not in a partition it is
>>> stored on the master disk with the system.
>>>       
>> "du" is essentially useless for Cyrus anyway since duplicate supression
>> and delayed expunge make "used disk space" kind of vague.
>>
>> If you just request the info for a mailbox it contains the mailboxes
>> size -
>>
>> sardine.mormail.com> info user.adam
>> {user.adam}:
>>  condstore: true
>>  duplicatedeliver: false
>>  lastpop:
>>  lastupdate:  1-Apr-2010 16:00:49 -0400
>>  partition: default
>>  pop3newuidl: true
>>  sharedseen: false
>>  size: 4276713
>>
>> But I can't figure out how cyradm acquires that "size" value.  Every
>> script I see walks the mailbox and accumulates the message sizes, yet
>> cyradm seems to now instantly.   Is size available via an annotation?
>>     
>
> Those values are all annotations.  The annotation you want is:
>
>    /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/size
>
>  	Andy
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i did not find any size file or binary in my cyrus-imap directories ???
have more informations about you said :

/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/size