On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jure Pecar wrote: > I'm seeing the same on my 2.2.0a here ... deliverdb is now at 826mb, i > have checkpoint event set with period=10 and i find one or two ctl_deliver > processes running, eating all the cputime available. strace shows it's > chewing the db files as it should ... Maybe i should experiment with -E 2 > or even 1 ...
Changing the checkpoint time won't have serious effects on ctl_deliver's time to run, only ctl_cyrusdb -r's How often are you running your ctl_deliver process (with what sort of expiration time) and how many messages do you see in a day? > What are the consequences of removing deliver.db? As i understand, nothing > critical. You can't do it while the server is up. It will cause duplicate messages to be delivered (once), and vacation messages to be sent again. > I think it would be smart for ctl_deliver to check if some other > ctl_deliver process is already running ... Probably. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper