Re: Removing stat*.dat files

Netwin did respond, I recall seeing it but don't recall the
exact message.
Something along the lines of... they shouldn't be getting
that big... send
us some info... I'm sure they'll let you know again what
they need.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Bridge <mikemymailout.com>
To: surgemail-listnetwinsite.com
Cc: supportnetwinsite.com
Subject: Re: [SurgeMail List] Removing stat*.dat files
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:45:37 -0700

>Hi-
>
>I haven't heard anything back on this---any idea what
the problem is?  I 
>neglected to empty the surgemail log directory out on
Friday and our 
>server ran out of space on the weekend.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Mike
>
>
>
>Mike Bridge wrote:
>> Hi-
>>
>> I have only one or two active users on that
machine, despite having a 
>> 10,000-user license.  It is mostly a secondary-MX
machine. When I type 
>> "tellmail pstat_dump", I get the
following:
>>
>>     D:surgemailrec0702>tellmail pstat_dump
>>     SurgeMail Version 3.8f3-3, Built Jan 12 2007
09:38:51, Platform
>>     Windows Key NXXXXXX OK, email=adminmymailout.com, users=10000,
>>     flags=0, host=skadi:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX,
prod=surgemail
>>
>>     Dumping pstat information pstat.dump
>>
>> ... That's it.
>>
>> And it's definitely the stat*.dat files:
>>
>>     02/07/2007  12:09 AM    <DIR>          .
>>     02/07/2007  12:09 AM    <DIR>         
..
>>     02/02/2007  12:00 AM        22,538,571
msg070201.rec
>>     02/03/2007  12:00 AM        20,147,261
msg070202.rec
>>     02/04/2007  12:00 AM         1,798,849
msg070203.rec
>>     02/05/2007  12:00 AM        10,397,682
msg070204.rec
>>     02/05/2007  11:56 PM        10,455,718
msg070205.rec
>>     02/06/2007  11:59 PM         7,947,608
msg070206.rec
>>     02/07/2007  12:00 AM         1,637,288
msg070207.rec
>>     02/02/2007  12:10 AM       199,053,868
stat070201.dat
>>     02/03/2007  12:09 AM       200,429,500
stat070202.dat
>>     02/04/2007  12:10 AM       199,526,188
stat070203.dat
>>     02/05/2007  12:17 AM       199,777,928
stat070204.dat
>>     02/07/2007  12:10 AM       200,483,620
stat070206.dat
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Surgemail Support (Marijn) wrote:
>>> Files that size would indicate there was
something seriously wrong 
>>> pstat status information files.
>>>
>>> The pstat database files (pstat.dat &
pstat.previous) should contain 
>>> approx 150 bytes per active account. And the
recyymm/stat*.dat files 
>>> should contain daily difs of this file. So even
if you had 100K users 
>>> the daily stat files should only be around
10MB.
>>>
>>> We have had bugs in the past that added corrupt
pstat entries, but 
>>> even if you had that, it still should not show
up in the way of huge 
>>> stat files.
>>>
>>> Start by looking at your pstat files (you can
dump the contents of 
>>> the pstat database using "tellmail
pstat_dump").
>>>
>>> The only thing you lose be deleting these files
is that this info is 
>>> used for the generation of the "Monthly
usage reports" on the reports 
>>> page.
>>>
>>> Or were you actually referring to the
msgyymm/msgyymmdd.rec files? 
>>> These are just the delivery logs and can easily
grow to several 
>>> hundred MB a day on a busy server.
>>>
>>> Marijn
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike
Bridge" <mikemymailout.com>
>>> To: <surgemail-listnetwinsite.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:42 PM
>>> Subject: [SurgeMail List] Removing stat*.dat
files
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi-
>>>>
>>>> I see from the list archives that the
stat*.dat files can be deleted 
>>>> safely, but it also ambiguously says that
they're used for 
>>>> "reporting". What reporting
capabilities am I losing by deleting 
>>>> them?  They add about 1/4 Gigabyte per day
to the hard drive---is 
>>>> there any way to disable or delete them
automatically?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>

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