You probably encountered a single very large mailbox. This patch:
--- cyrus-imapd-2.3.8/imap/sync_support.c 2006-11-30
12:11:20.000000000 -0500
+++ cyrus-imapd-2.3.8p3/imap/sync_support.c 2007-04-12
13:27:49.000000000 -0400
@@ -914,9 +914,9 @@
result = xzmalloc(sizeof(struct sync_message));
message_uuid_set_null(&result->uuid);
- result->msg_path = xzmalloc(5 * (MAX_MAILBOX_PATH+1) * sizeof
(char));
+ result->msg_path = xzmalloc((MAX_MAILBOX_PATH+1) * sizeof(char));
result->msg_path_end = result->msg_path +
- 5 * (MAX_MAILBOX_PATH+1) * sizeof(char);
+ (MAX_MAILBOX_PATH+1) * sizeof(char);
snprintf(result->stagename, sizeof(result->stagename), "%lu.",
l->count);
Reduces the space that sync_server allocates when syncing a mailbox.
The "5 *" doesn't really do anything useful, other than waste a lot
of space.
On 17 Apr 2007, at 15:24, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
After performing an initial sync of 65G worth of mailboxes the
above error occurred. I kept an eye on the process initally but saw
nothing worrying, then it died about halfway through the sync.
Could I have hit some system limits? Vanilla FreeBSD 6.2.
I'm starting off fresh now again to try to figure it out.
And, while at it, here are one more sync related:
* The "sync_shutdown_file:" switch, does it mean that the presence
of this file will stop the sync process? At least that is how I
intepret it...
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