Your memory is pretty good, Dave. That’s where the lion’s share of the space 
was being taken up. 194GB if I remember right.

-Ken


> On Mar 18, 2015, at 2:34 AM, David Game <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yup have a look in $SPECROOT/mysql/data/reporting (if memory serves)
> 
> You should have lots of MySQL tables in there, most of which are sensibly 
> sized, then you'll have EVENTS.MDB which will be bigger than Kanye West's ego.
> 
> If you keep defaults set on SRM and have a particularly "noisy" network you 
> will find that EVENTS.MDB and the associated log/lookup index thing will 
> often go into several 10's of GB.  If you don't keep an eye on it, it can get 
> really unwieldy and the only way to fix it is to run "TRUNCATE TABLE EVENTS" 
> on the MySQL command prompt. Which will lose your historical event data and 
> get you back a shed-load of disk space.  You can also set SRM to record most 
> stuff but NOT events if you want, due to the size the tables get to which is 
> why there's a separate check box for events on each landscape being processed 
> by SRM.
> 
> Also keep those tables in mind when you're planning major release upgrades if 
> there's a change in DB table format as there was recently. You'll need at 
> least the same amount again in free space for the conversion process to work, 
> and obviously the larger the tables, the longer the upgrade process takes.  
> For speed of deployment against historic event availability, it may be wise 
> to just zero out the events database before a major upgrade and take the hit.
> 
> Dave


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