I recently upgraded our Administration server to Domino R6.01 from R5.08
Ever since then Domino is contantly sweeping through the mailboxes attempting to compact them. As most of the databases don’t require compacting, they just drop off the task list almost immediately with a 0% recovered message.
However, the larger mailboxes which appear to need compacting take an age to run through the task only to drop off with a 0% recovered message.
The catch is, as they have taken so long to compact, the new compact sweep has already started again and off we go on the vicious circle.
I have done the offline Updall, Fixup and compacting tasks, the ODS is V43 but to no avail.
I also tried to create new replicas of the databases, which seems to work for a while, but eventually they get sucked back into the process, I assume after people have started deleting documents.
If I create replicas on another (R5) server, the databases sit there quite happily and don’t start compacting like some mad thing… So the questions are…
Why is it doing this and why only on mailboxes?
How can I stop it doing this?
And why even though it is compacting a database which appears to need it, it still doesn’t free up any space, yet it does if you set off a manual compact?
Oh yeah, and when will I get a good nights sleep without thinking about all the above? :o)
As you can imagine this is getting very tiresome and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Bryn.