Starting "delayed message expunge" on a large Cyrus 2.3.16 server.

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 13. Mai 2011 14:57:36 +0200 Eric Luyten <Eric.Luyten at vub.ac.be> wrote:

> I currently have the following entry in my cyrus.conf :
>
>    delprune	cmd="cyr_expire -E 1" at=0055
>
> which takes about six minutes, every night, to
>
>    May 13 00:55:11 cyr_expire[21210]: Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0
> mailboxes
>    May 13 00:55:11  cyr_expire[21210]: duplicate_prune: pruning back 1
> days    May 13 01:01:45cyr_expire[21210]: duplicate_prune: purged 205245
> out of 401016 entries
>
>
> I think I'll have to launch several cyr_expire's one after another or in
> parallel (will be done during night hours or weekends) to get the job
> done before production load arrives.

We have a setup similar to yours in size and get by just fine with only 
this entry:

delprune	cmd="cyr_expire -E 3 -X 3 -D 3" at=0400

I just checked our logs. It usually finishes around 7 am.
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