On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:59:47PM -0600, Paul Engle wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > All, > > We've just upgraded our first replicated pair of cyrus servers > to 2.3.15, and I'm seeing what I consider odd behavior on the > replica of the pair. > > A brief rundown of our configuration: > > Both servers running RHEL5, cyrus-imapd-2.3.15 > Three partitions on each server: cyrus1a (default), cyrus1b, > cyrus1c > Delayed delete is turned on for both the master & the replica > > This morning, when I performed a user cleanup and deleted a > batch of user INBOXes, I noticed the sync_server process was > going dog-slow and the replication log was backing up on the > master. > > It turns out that, on the replica, when a mailbox gets deleted, > the DELETED mailbox is being put on the default partition > rather than the partition it started on. As a result, anything > not native to the default partition is having to get copied > from one filesystem to the other, causing the replication to > slow down considerably. On the master server, the DELETED > mailbox is put on the same partition it started on. > > Is this desired behavior? I wouldn't think so, and at this > point I'm going to have to turn off delayed deletes on our > replica target so that the sync_server stops bogging down. Oh man - that's almost certainly a bug! We don't notice it at FastMail because we only have one partition per server. I'll check it out. Bron. ---- 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
