On Tuesday 25 November 2003 7:22 pm, becki wrote: Hi becki,
can you try to compile a stable 2.4.22 kernel and give it a shot first? I think its faster than to upgrade the whole suse box to see if its a bug in the kernel. regards, Kenneth Oncinian > hello again, > > first thanks a lot to Ming-Wei for sending in his tips :-) but > unfortunately even the recompile with the CFLAG options below didn't solve > my problem > > :-( the pop3d & imapd processes still hang from time to time and it's also > > hard to say why ?!? so i think it must be a bug in the linux kernel like > jesse told me in another thread ?!? he experienced the same with linux > debian. after upgrading to a different kernel version everything worked > fine ! > > the version i'm runing is SuSE linux 8.1 with kernel 2.4.18 !! dbmail is > version 1.2.1 ! > > so i give it up for the moment ..... better to update the SuSE linux to 8.2 > with a newer kernel 2.4.20 .. hopefully this helps :-) > > anyway, thanks again to the developers of dbmail ! > > all the best & a nice day > > becki > > http://www.beckspaced.com - are you beckspaced ?!? > > > hello again :-), > > well .... i recompiled dbmail v.1.2.1 with the CFLAG options you sent to me > ! > > did an EXPORT > > export CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > export CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > > then a ./configure and make. at the end i used the ./install-dbmail.sh > script to install the newly compiled binaries ! > > then a killall dbmail-pop3d & imapd to kill the old processes and finally > restarted the processes with dbmail-pop3d & imapd ! > > i also did a few tests to simulate the connection drop from my ISP but at > the moment it's hard to tell if everything works fine. i have to observe > the system for a while and see what will happen ! > > but for the moment the recompile works well and the mail system is > functioning proberly ;-) > > thank you for your help ! > > the system i'm runing is SuSE linux 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel ! the dbmail i > use is 1.2.1 and hopefully this info will help some other guys who probably > ran into the same problem ! > > all the best & have fun > becki > > > > in your source tree type (if you are using bash): > > export CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > export CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > ./configure > make > > hope this helps > Ming-Wei > > > > hello ming-wei, > > thanks really a lot for your fast response to my problem :-) i recently > posted another mail to the list as i found out that this problem ONLY > happens when the ISP drops the internet connection during send & receive ! > for more info see the other post. > > so thanks for you hint with using the CFLAGS ! but i have to say that i'm > not a C programmer or anything like that :-( so i could need a bit more > info .... hopefully this is possible ?! :-) > > as far as i found out the CFLAGS are defined in the makefiles, isn't it ?! > well if i look in the source code then i do see 5 makefiles ... > makefile.am, makefile.concept, makefile.in, makefile.mysql, makefile.pgsql > ! > > 3 of them (.concept, .mysql, .pgsql) have the cflag defined like ==>> > > CFLAGS = -Wall -O2 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE > > well i'm using mysql as a DB backend so the .pgsql should be without any > interest, isn't it ?! so should i then just update the CFLAG in all 2 files > (.concept, .mysql) to look like this ?! ==>> > > CFLAGS = -O2 -FOMIT-FRAME-POINTER -PIPE > > and then recompile the whole stuff ?!? run build.sh and later > install-dbmail.sh ..... > > my dbmail version is 1.2.1 and i'm runing SuSE linux 8.1 !! > > any more info is really appreciated as i need to run this dbmail system > proberly ! > > thanks really a lot for your help & time :-) > > all the best & have a nice day > > becki > > > > > try using "-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" as you CFLAGS > =20 > Ming-Wei > > > > > hello, > > i recently installed the new release dbmail 1.2.1 ! since then from time to > time a pop3d or an imapd seems to hang and needs 99% of the CPU ! this is > really bad ;-( > > is there any patch or something available that tells me how to fix this > issue ?!? any help would be really appreciated ;-) > > also looked through the mailing list but couldn't find anything yet. a > small hint would be really nice ;-) > > before i had the dbmail 1.1 version installed and had the same problem. i > thought upgrading to version 1.2.1 would solve this problem ... but as far > as i see .... it has not :-( > > i would really need some help because i'm runing this on a public server so > i need the mail system to run fine ! > > by the way, i really like dbmail and thanks a lot for you guys who are > developing this piece of software :-) > > all the best > beckmann > > http://www.beckspaced.com - are you beckspaced ?!? > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
