Kopano Search Storage size
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Hello,
I just migrated a clients mailsystem to Kopano (with subscription). After importing some big mailboxes the machine started having a heavy load for many hours (~2 days). The process which took so much power was /usr/bin/python3 /usr/sbin/kopano-search -F.
After the kopano search deamon was finished creating the index, I wonder why there is so less space left on the machine. Another phenomenon is that the system load raises very fast (> 5.00) when users are connected (via IMAP and Outlook).
The database is about 8 GBytes:
root@mailserver:~# du -hs /var/lib/mysql/kopano/ 7,7G /var/lib/mysql/kopano/The attachment directory is about 60 GBytes:
root@mailserver:~# du -hs /var/lib/kopano/attachments/ 60G /var/lib/kopano/attachments/So I wonder why the search index is bigger than the database and the attachment folder together:
root@mailserver:~# du -hs /var/lib/kopano/search/ 77G /var/lib/kopano/search/Here are some data for the installation:
- Debian 9 64-Bit
- Kopano 8.7.1 (Installation; Upgraded to 8.7.3)
- Z-Push 2.5 (current version)
- Migration was done using kopano-migration-pst command.
- 4 Cores; 28 GBytes RAM, SSD-Storage
On other client installations I don’t have these phenomena. The search index directory there is much smaller than the real data.
So my questions are:
- Is kopano-search ignoring the default setting index_attachments = no ?
- Should I start a new indexing (remove directory while kopano-search is stopped)?
- Many users use email encryption; so indexing must not be necessary?
- Is it safe to disable kopano-search?
Thank you!
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Hi,
this is a answer to myself or anyone who has the same problem.I solved the big storage issue by stopping kopano-search, deleting /var/lib/kopano/search/ and restarting kopano-search.
Old size of search-cache was 77 GB, new size is 1,4 GB.
The reason: I don’t know. Maybe a bug while importing in 8.7.1?
Bye.
