On Friday 20 November 2009 14:38:50 Arora, Sumit wrote: > I'm really amazed... its maillog that is consuming 4KB on a simple 5-7 line > logging for each email.... > > -Sumit Arora
How long are those lines? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of J. Roeleveld Sent: > Friday, November 20, 2009 6:51 PM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: 4KB of disk space burning on a single email > > On Friday 20 November 2009 14:14:03 Arora, Sumit wrote: > > You are right Joost, 4KB will be the block size... > > But my question is who is taking this disk space, because email is > > deleted already. > > > > Is this any log or what.... I just have to stop consumption of any kind > > of disk space except mail logs. > > > > Please help.... > > > > -Sumit Arora > > 4K on logs per email are quite a lot. Unless you have really verbose > logging. Unless your system logger is duplicating messages over several > logfiles? > > Possible places to look: > /var/spool/..... > /tmp/.... > /var/tmp/.... > > Maybe something leave temporary files, or maybe your postfix is keeping > files in a spool-directory. > > Maybe try the following to see where additional files are placed: > > du / > PRE-newemail.txt > <have postfix parse a few emails> > du / > POST-newemail.txt > > Then do a diff on these 2 text-files to see which directories had an > increase. Hopefully, this will reduce the possible locations to check for > possible locations. > > -- > Joost > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of J. Roeleveld Sent: > > Friday, November 20, 2009 6:26 PM > > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > > Subject: Re: 4KB of disk space burning on a single email > > > > On Friday 20 November 2009 13:42:58 Arora, Sumit wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm just testing my postfix server for load and disk usage. > > > I'm using content filter on some another server, and I don't feed the > > > email back to postfix. > > > > > > Email data is getting deleted from my postfix server, but I don't know > > > where 4KB of my disk space gone on every email my postfix server > > > receives. If anybody have some idea, please tell me. > > > > > > -Sumit Arora > > > > My guess is that the filesystem has a block-size of 4KB. > > > > A file is stored over a set of blocks of this size. Which means that if a > > file is smaller then 4KB, it will still use a 4KB block. > > > > As far as I know, only reiserfs has the "notail"option which will try to > > stick multiple smaller files into a single block. > > > > -- > > Joost >
