[opencms-dev] OpenCMS bug? Delete content everywhere, DB is still too large (10GB+)

Kunicke, Holger holger.kunicke at av-studio.de
Thu Jul 28 15:56:05 CEST 2011


Hi,

if using MySQL with MyISAM it is normally that the size of the database file on 
the harddisk (that doesn't mean the number of database records !!!) is not 
decrease instantly until the database table was optimized by an db-admin or an 
cron-job.

Regards

Am 28.07.2011 15:15, schrieb gleb makarov:
> Hi Deiverson,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I know that this issue was announced as fixed, but as I wrote we still have 
> it. So I`d like to understand whether it is our local problem, or not.
>
> 2011/7/28 Deiverson Silveira <deiverson at solutioncms.com 
> <mailto:deiverson at solutioncms.com>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     In version 7.5.4, is fixed this problem:
>     * Fixed issue #1949: Database size does not decrease after (completely)
>     deleting resources
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Deiverson Silveira
>
>
>     2011/7/28 gleb makarov <gleb.a.makarov at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gleb.a.makarov at gmail.com>>
>
>         Hello everyone,
>
>         We were trying to reduce the size of the DB by deleting the content
>         and history versions, but its size wasn`t decreased. We had the same
>         problem on 7.5.2 version, and tried to clean up the DB after upgrading
>         to 7.5.4, but still couldn`t reduce its size.
>
>         Does someone still has the same problem on 7.5.4?
>
>         2011/3/11 Mario Jäger <m.jaeger at alkacon.com <mailto:m.jaeger at alkacon.com>>
>
>             Hello,
>
>             FYI: This issue is fixed in the CVS Head now:
>             http://bugzilla.opencms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949
>
>             Kind Regards,
>             Mario.
>
>             Am 11.02.2011 11:11, schrieb Michael Emmerich:
>             > Hello Ignacio,
>             >
>             > I made a little test here to try to reproduce this (on OpenCms
>             7.5.3)
>             >
>             > 1) Copy a complete site and publish it
>             >
>             > ->  Number of entries in CMS_CONTENTS table increases as expected
>             >
>             > 2) Touch the copied site (including rewrite content)
>             >
>             > ->   Number of entries in CMS_CONTENTS table increases as expected
>             >
>             > 3) Delete the copied site and publish it
>             >
>             > ->   Number of entries in CMS_CONTENTS table increases, this seems
>             > strange and I would not have expected this
>             >
>             > 4) Cleanup History tables, keep one version, delete al deleted
>             >
>             > ->  Number of entries in CMS_CONTENTS stays the same as in 3),
>             this seems
>             > to be not correct.
>             >
>             > So steps 3 and 4 bring up results that must be investigated.
>             >
>             > We will take a look at this for the OpenCms 8 release, it would
>             be good
>             > if you could add a enty in bugzilla.opencms.org
>             <http://bugzilla.opencms.org>.
>             >
>             > Kind Regards,
>             > Michael
>             >
>             >
>             >
>             >
>             > Am 10.02.2011 21:10, schrieb Ignacio Martelli:
>             >> Hi,
>             >>
>             >> I found something strange while trying to reduce the size of a big
>             >> (13GB+) OpenCMS 7.5.2 instance by deleting old content. I first
>             tried
>             >> to delete the content in the server, but the DB did not
>             decrease it's
>             >> size. In order to do the process correctly I copied the entire
>             server
>             >> into a dev VM, and tried to delete ALL the content. Here is what I
>             >> did:
>             >>
>             >> - Delete all the contents of /sites/MySite
>             >> - In "Administration ->   File History ->   History Settings":
>             change
>             >> settings to leave 1 stored version and not keep deleted resources.
>             >> - In "Administration ->   File History ->   Clear History":
>             Cleared all
>             >> history including all versions of deleted files, left only 1 file
>             >> versions of normal content.
>             >> - In MySql: Optimized all tables to reclaim hard disk space.
>             >>
>             >> After doing all these steps, I checked the DB size, and found
>             it still
>             >> weights at over 10GB! Looking at table sizes, the table
>             CMS_CONTENTS
>             >> is taking 90% of that space.
>             >>
>             >> I checked the contents of that table and found content linked
>             only to
>             >> CMS_HISTORY_RESOURCES and CMS_PUBLISH_HISTORY but not linked to
>             >> CMS_ONLINE_RESOURCES, CMS_HISTORY_RESOURCES,
>             CMS_ONLINE_STRUCTURE or
>             >> CMS_HISTORY_STRUCTURE.
>             >>
>             >> Checking the CMS_PUBLISH_HISTORY table I found that the path of
>             said
>             >> content was in a subfolder of /sites/MySite. I see no way to access
>             >> that path from the workplace.
>             >>
>             >>
>             >> If I understand correctly I have content that I cannot access
>             from the
>             >> workplace (because it has no resources or structure associated with
>             >> it). Shouldn't that content have been deleted?????? Is this a
>             bug, or
>             >> is the content necessary?
>             >>
>             >>
>             >> Regards,
>             >> IM
>             >>
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