Following on to this issue I have looked a little deeper and I've found that my ticket_history table contains ~57,000,000 records. Bear in mind we have about 9900 (not 9400) tickets in the database. This seems a little large to me in terms of ticket history lines to tickets. After running a few queries against the database and taking a closer look at what was going on I figured out what happened. I had configured a couple of generic agent jobs that basically made sure tickets from certain places ended up with the correct customer code. The problem was the selection criteria wasn't specific enough and basically kept repeatedly changing the tickets back to the same customer ID even if it was already set correctly. This created a ticket_history entry for each time the generic agent touched the ticket. Result: HUGE ticket_history on many tickets. On the order of 21000+ records on some tickets. Ugh. Bad thing. Sooo..I'm looking at the database now and I think I'm going to simply try to prune any ticket history past some arbitrary count such as 50. At least that'll maintain the history on the tickets I have and get the database back down to a manageable size. Live and learn. ________________________________ From: otrs-bounces@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces@otrs.org] On Behalf Of Jason B. Loven Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:36 PM To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.org Subject: [otrs] Ticket history table size revisited I had mentioned a while back that I had hit a limit in MySQL with the tablesize on my ticket_history table. I was able to get around it by adjusting the table parameters. More of a concern is that the table hit the limit at all. We process about 20-30 tickets a day and have been using the system for just about a year. Certainly not heavy users. Is it reasonable to expect the ticket_history table to be this big for approximately 9400 tickets? Is there a way to look deeper and determine if there's some attachments or something like that which could be causing the table to be unusually large? Ticket_history data is as follows... mysql> show table status like 'ticket_history'\G *************************** 1. row *************************** Name: ticket_history Engine: MyISAM Version: 10 Row_format: Dynamic Rows: 57025570 Avg_row_length: 104 Data_length: 5969466052 Max_data_length: 1099511627775 Index_length: 6723551232 Data_free: 0 Auto_increment: 57044889 Create_time: 2007-02-07 08:42:37 Update_time: 2007-03-01 12:24:52 Check_time: 2007-02-07 10:14:18 Collation: latin1_swedish_ci Checksum: NULL Create_options: max_rows=4294967295 avg_row_length=106 Comment: 1 row in set (0.00 sec) Thank you, Jason Loven Manager - Technical Services Department Computer Associates, Inc. 36 Thurber Blvd, Smithfield RI 02917 Phone: (401)232-2600, Fax: (401)232-7778 Email: jloven@cainetserv.com Web: http://www.cainetserv.com/