What does "doveconf | grep mdbox" say? This isn't normal.. On 6.1.2011, at 0.33, Joan Moreau wrote:
> > > so, why after a dsync from sdbox to mdbox, I have 100 000's of files of > about 20k ? (and not 2MB !) > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 21K 2011-01-03 02:47 m.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 17K 2011-01-03 02:47 m.10 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 20K 2011-01-03 02:47 m.100 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 20K 2011-01-03 02:51 m.1000 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 14K 2011-01-03 03:35 m.10000 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100000 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 174K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100001 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 175K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100002 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100003 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100004 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100005 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 17K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100006 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100007 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100008 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100009 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 14K 2011-01-03 03:35 m.10001 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 20K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100010 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:04 m.100011 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100012 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 17K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100013 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 20K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100014 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 173K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100015 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100016 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100017 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100018 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100019 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 14K 2011-01-03 03:35 m.10002 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 177K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100020 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 20K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100021 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100022 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 52K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100023 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 18K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100024 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 177K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100025 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mailusers mail 19K 2011-01-03 09:05 m.100026 > > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 00:15:30 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> On 6.1.2011, at 0.07, Joan Moreau wrote: >> >>> How to tune the size of each "m.xxx" file in mdbox format , in order to >>> optimize the ratio size/number of files ? (I can see for instance more >>> than 100 000 files in one directory due to very large mailbox size) >> mdbox_rotate_size setting sets the max size of one mdbox file. There's >> really no ratio setting.. It would be difficult since as more messages >> get added more files would have to be merged, which would generate extra >> disk I/O, and typically people care about disk I/O rather than the inode >> count. >> >>> If such parameter exists, what is the typical value ? >> Default is 2 MB files. >
