On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:37, Eric Hattemer <hattenator@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it possible for cyrus and postfix to cause a hardlock when no other > programs seem to? 1-10 minutes after I start my mail server, the system > hardlocks. I can record and transcode gigabytes of tv shows, run a web > server, download and upload tons of stuff, and test the system in any > way with no problems. Windows has no problems. Yet when I start cyrus, Mail servers hit the disk harder than most programs. The indexing operation you refer to probably more than most operations. Try running some disk benchmark programs on the system and see if you can reproduce the problem with a simpler program. The simpler the test case that causes it the easier things will be for people who try and work out what the problem is. Incidentally Linux seems to be more intensive in it's use of hard disks. Some years ago a company I worked for was purchasing hard disks from a company that had just bought out a competitor. Due to the purchase there were two different models of disk in each common size (one from each company) that had the same part numbers. One of those disks would work perfectly in Linux systems and the other would predictably lose data after about 1-2 weeks! Both types of disk worked OK in Windows systems. The company shipped their entire stock of bad disks to Windows users (who didn't complain) and I faxed a photo-copy of one of the bad disks to the wholesaler with the message "please send no more disks that look like this". -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
