No I guess I hadn't heard that suggestion before. Thanks.. Is there an easy way to go from BerkeleyDB to skiplist?
Jim
At 11:26 AM 3/28/2003 -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote:
If you haven't had the suggestion before, it's really not recommended to use Berkeley DB for your mailbox list. Use skiplist instead.
-Rob
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jim Howell wrote:
> Hi,
> Last night we had this happen again on one of our systems. What is the
> current thinking as to the cause and/or fix to this problem? I saw one
> response last time that said backing off to DB 4.0 would help. Again the
> versions of things are:
>
> Sendmail 8.12.8
> Cyrus 2.1.11
> Berkeley DB 4.1.24
>
> Thanks.
> Jim
>
>
>
> Hi,
> I have an interesting problem. Over the weekend our syslog forwarder went
> beserk generating over 300,000 messages to about 6 people. This morning
> our three new Cyrus systems went belly up, (yes that is a technical term),
> actually the master daemon seemed to eventually freeze up. The only real
> error msgs I can find are these:
> Mar 10 00:18:16 postoffice8 lmtpd[27393]: [ID 729713 local6.error] DBERROR:
> opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> Mar 10 08:04:46 postoffice8 pop3d[2183]: [ID 729713 local6.error] DBERROR:
> opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> Mar 10 08:12:58 postoffice8 imapd[2489]: [ID 729713 local6.error] DBERROR:
> opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> Mar 10 08:14:05 postoffice8 imapd[2731]: [ID 729713 local6.error] DBERROR:
> opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> Mar 10 08:27:59 postoffice8 imapd[3951]: [ID 729713 local6.error] DBERROR:
> opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
>
> Now I'm been running older versions of Cyrus (1.5.19) for years at 300,000
> messages a day with no trouble. I don't believe space is really an issue,
> here is a df -k from one of the systems.
>
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/md/dsk/d0 1984564 904568 1020460 47% /
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> /dev/md/dsk/d1 962573 255248 649571 29% /var
> swap 28642528 32 28642496 1% /var/run
> swap 28655440 12944 28642496 1% /tmp
> /dev/md/dsk/d4 5040814 8134 4982272 1% /users
> /dev/md/dsk/d3 5040814 452439 4537967 10% /opt
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/logvol01
> 5160542 115891 4993046 3% /logs
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/mqueuevol01
> 10321884 4986 10213680 1% /mqueue
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/cyrus_data_vol01
> 41287586 126222 40748489 1% /opt/cyrus
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/sendmailvol01
> 41287586 603402 40271309 2% /opt/sendmail_vol
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/cyrus_app_vol01
> 41287586 147526 40727185 1% /opt/cyrus_vol
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/spoolvol01
> 103218991 679107 101507695 1% /var/spool/mail
> swap 28642640 144 28642496 1% /opt/cyrus/proc
> /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/appvol01
> 20643785 54397 20382951 1% /applications
>
>
> This is all with Cyrus 2.1.11 on a V880 with 32GB of memory with Solaris 8
> and, Sendmail 8.12.8. Anyone seen this before? Thanks.
> Jim
>
>
>
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