On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Jean-G?rard Pailloncy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a mail server that suffers a strange size for /var/db/spamd.
> 
> # ls -l /var/db/spamd
> -rw-------  1 _spamd  _spamd  167657472 Oct  6 19:45 /var/db/spamd
> # spamdb | wc -l
>    16784
> 
> 167 Mbytes for 16784 entries...
> 
> The box is a little old: OpenBSD 4.1 (stable)
> 
> Any solution ? appart upgrading (planned)
> 
> JG

berkeley db files appear larger than they are: it uses sparse files.
Check with ls -S or du for the actual blocks used. 

        -Otto

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