On 08/03/2011 05:41 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:12:14 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld > <Marc.Muehlfeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Am 03.08.2011 20:59, schrieb Simon Matter: >>> They should, but be aware that maybe you broght some crap in >>> /var/lib/imap/db so it was still not clean. > > Sorry, I should have jumped on this earlier! Stuff will get > created in /var/lib/imap/db if BDB support is compiled in, > even if you're not using it at all. > >> But when I stop cyrus, the db folder just contains the DB_CONFIG file >> and a 4 >> byte "skipstamp" file. Nothing else. Just when cyrus is running, there >> are >> some files in it: > > skipstamp is required for skiplist to work well. That's fine. > >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 24576 3. Aug 22:06 __db.001 >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 6930432 3. Aug 22:06 __db.002 >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 2629632 3. Aug 22:06 __db.003 >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1081344 3. Aug 22:06 __db.004 >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 38887424 3. Aug 22:06 __db.005 >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 57344 3. Aug 22:06 __db.006 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus mail 52 18. Jul 13:04 DB_CONFIG >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10485760 3. Aug 22:06 log.0000000001 >> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4 3. Aug 22:06 skipstamp > > man I hate BDB. > >> I changed tlscache_db and duplicate_db to skiplist now: >> >> # file /var/lib/imap/*.db >> /var/lib/imap/annotations.db: Cyrus skiplist DB >> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: Cyrus skiplist DB >> /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db: Cyrus skiplist DB >> /var/lib/imap/tls_sessions.db: Cyrus skiplist DB > > Good idea, but apart from just being nicer DBs - it has nothing to do > with your IOERROR index/expunge problem. It's not related to the > lib/cyrusdb files at all - it's purely mailbox files (cyrus.index > and cyrus.expunge) related. > >>> I don't know, did you also check the ownership and permissions of all >>> directories? >> >> Yes. It's all fine. When I remove the files and do a reconstruct they are >> recreated and the IOERRORS are gone. On some mailboxes the never came >> back, on >> others they came back after hours or some days. > > I wish I could help with this - but the memories have faded and I don't > have > the time to dig through all my emails looking for my descriptions of where > I found the bugs in all this - I wound up just replacing the whole blob of > code (over a thousand lines!) with about 20 lines of pretty clear code, > using > a new model of doing mailbox repacks that's a lot simpler. This sounds like the problem you fixed for me where I was having to reconstruct mailboxes every time after a weekly ipurge run hit every mailbox. Turns out that you fixed the ipurge utility itself with a one or two line patch. But that should be fixed in 2.3.16 . > > Bron. > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
