Run "export_user" in the console, the stop the node, run "cd /spider/local_data; perl user_json" and then restart your node. It's probably a good idea to do this once a year or so anyway. This will clear out a some cruft, but the users file contains a record for *every* user seen on the system - including on other nodes. This means that the users.v3j file will likely always grow bigger. On GB7TLH-2 (that is a nodes only node) There are just over 295000 users recorded. None of which are / have been locally connected. 73 Dirk G1TLH On 03/03/2026 20:25, Erik Schott via Dxspider-support wrote:
I run the DX cluster at dxcluster.pa0esh.nl and lately my server has become somewhat sluggish. After some investigation I found that the user database users.v3j (located in /spider/data/) is being loaded entirely into memory. The file is currently 100MB in size and contains 266,323 records — all of which appear to be older than two years or have never logged in.
My question: is it safe to clean up this database, and if so, is there a recommended procedure or built-in tool to remove stale or inactive users? I noticed there are conversion scripts in /spider/perl/ but nothing that looks like a purge or expiry tool.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards, Erik, PA0ESH _______________________________________________ Dxspider-support mailing list -- dxspider-support@dxcluster.org To unsubscribe send an email to dxspider-support-leave@dxcluster.org