Upgrade cyrus-imapd (it fixes an important bug with Berkeley DB 4.1.25) and use skiplist for mailboxes although you should be able to use berkeley as well.
-Igor On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Wolfgang Hottgenroth wrote: > Hi, > > > unfortunately I read this message not earlier than today ... when I > ran into a similar situation with the 'DBERROR: ... Not enough space'. > > I'm using cyrus-imap-2.1.12 with Berkeley DB 4.1.25. > > So, I understand correct, that you recommend against using the default > setting (Berkeley DB) for the mailboxes list but skiplist? What > actually means 'skiplist'? And what is the difference to 'flat'? > > And, does it actually means that Berkeley DB won't work properly > together with cyrus imap? > > > Thanks, > Wolfgang > > > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 > > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper > > > > > -- Igor