Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-10 Thread William Blunn
On 05/01/2011 22:47, Joan Moreau wrote: # doveconf | grep mdbox mdbox_preallocate_space = no mdbox_rotate_interval = 0 mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M Is the space between the '2' and the 'M' significant? Only in my configuration file it says "2M" with no space. I was wondering if the space might ma

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-06 Thread Joan Moreau
yep On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:35:40 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 6.1.2011, at 0.47, Joan Moreau wrote: >> # doveconf | grep mdbox mdbox_preallocate_space = no mdbox_rotate_interval = 0 mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M > Are you certain these were set the same way when you converted?

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-06 Thread Charles Marcus
On 6.1.2011, at 0.47, Joan Moreau wrote: > # doveconf | grep mdbox > mdbox_preallocate_space = no > mdbox_rotate_interval = 0 > mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M Are you certain these were set the same way when you converted? -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-05 Thread Joan Moreau
It looks like each of them has one or more messages. Looks like if the msg is too big, (i.e. above the 20k or so), there is only one message in the m.xxx regarding lda, my "mdbox" folders are just a mirror via dsync, no lda incoming in the mdbox folders On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 00:51:00 +0200, Ti

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
That is weird then.. Have you looked inside these files? Does each one have only a single mail or are there a couple? What Dovecot version? These files were created by dsync I guess? What about the last few files that (I assume) are created by dovecot-lda, are they any bigger? On 6.1.2011, at 0

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-05 Thread Joan Moreau
# doveconf | grep mdbox mdbox_preallocate_space = no mdbox_rotate_interval = 0 mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 00:40:44 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: 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

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
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 mai

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-05 Thread Joan Moreau
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 2

Re: [Dovecot] size of "m.XXX" in mdbox

2011-01-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
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 m