"Erin B. Peszko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We're experiencing the problem of our /var/imap partition filling up (to
> 100% capacity) very quickly, typically during the day where there may be
> around 3000 imapd processes running. We're suspecting that there needs to
> be a 'close mailboxes' in some part of the code where there currently
> isn't.
Before 2.x, the mailboxes file is represented as a flat file. Each
imap process basically has the mailboxes file open and the OS will not
delete that file until the imapd closes it. If a mailbox update
happens, the file appears to get deleted but the OS does not
deallocate the space.
I believe in 1.6 or maybe the later 1.5 code we got more aggressive in
trying to close the mailboxes file whenever possible.
> Is anyone else experiencing this? Have a solution?
>
> Solaris 2.5.1
> Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.14
Upgrade Cyrus IMAP software to at least 1.5.24 though you'd probably
be much better off going to 1.6.24 or even 2.0.8 (coming soon).
We also experienced some flakely behavior with Solaris 2.5.1 and we
found things much more stable after upgrading to 2.6.
You could also just allocate more disk space to the partition.
Walter
