> > My suggestion would be to switch to skiplist and get rid of those > "lockers". I never heard anyone complaining after switching to skiplist. > The listarchives can tell you more about it. > > Regards, > Simon > As far as I know I did switch to skiplist. I upgraded to 2.3 from a 2.1 install and one of the steps was: rm -f /var/imap/db/* cp /var/imap/mailboxes.db /var/imap/mailboxes.db.old cvt_cyrusdb /var/imap/mailboxes.db berkeley /var/imap/mailboxes.db.new skiplist mv /var/imap/mailboxes.db.new /var/imap/mailboxes.db rm -f /var/imap/db/* touch /var/imap/db/skipstamp chown -R cyrus:other /var/imap for fl in `find /var/imap/user name \*.seen`; do /usr/cyrus/bin/cvt_cyrusdb $fl flat ${fl}.new skiplist; mv ${fl}.new $fl; done Is there something besides mailboxes.db and the user .seen files that should be converted? Also, the load on the box in terms of connections and messages is roughly equivalent as other days when this doesn't happen. I looked through postfix and I noticed these errors: Jul 15 08:10:58 ssmail postfix/lmtp[23685]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 10C722DB6E0: to=<xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=cpimail.cpicorp.com[/var/imap/socket/lmtp], delay=29096, delays=19403/5509/3583/600, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with cpimail.cpicorp.com[/var/imap/socket/lmtp] timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) Jul 15 08:10:58 ssmail postfix/lmtp[23915]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 1D1AA2DB845: to=<s41270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=cpimail.cpicorp.com[/var/imap/socket/lmtp], delay=29038, delays=19345/6092/3001/600, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with cpimail.cpicorp.com[/var/imap/socket/lmtp] timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) Postfix is configured with a hard limit of 10 concurrent lmtp processes. Is that too high? If it happens again, does anyone have some dtrace scripts for figuring out what lmtpd is doing? Thanks, Derek -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek Chen-Becker Senior Network Engineer, Security Architect CPI Corp, Inc. 1706 Washington Ave St. Louis, MO 63103 Phone: 314-231-7711 x6455 Fax: 314-613-6724 dbecker@xxxxxxxxxxx PGP Key available from public key servers Fingerprint: E4C4 26C0 8588 E80A C29F 636D 1FBE 0FE3 2871 4AE8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html