On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Am 19.03.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Simon: > >> What im trying to understand is why is the SUM of curmail_size is approx >> 110GB, yet the database size (even dump'ed) is 400GB. Surely dbmail does >> not have that much overhead in its database? >> > > mailsize has barely to do with database size > completly different worlds > > no database at all gives back space just because data are removed because > the overhead would be way too large, be it mysql, berkely db, postgresql or > something else - they all try to re-use allocated space as good as possible > without vacuum all the time > OK thanks for the clarification on this. I just seems completely out of wack that the DB would use 4 times the amount of space for the actual data to me :) One of the reasons we have moved away from dbmail for our primary platform... Simon
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