On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jules Agee wrote:
> I've had this happen a few times, reconstructing the deliver db on > startup. I don't think this db is used for anything besides duplicate > delivery suppression, is it? Is there a recommended way to clean this > out periodically? Jules, Look at the man page for "cyr_expire" and "cyrus.conf". In recent releases you would have an entree similar to this in the EVENTS section of the cyrus.conf file: delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400 - Bill > I rarely get duplicates that show up more than a > minute apart. I think it would be ideal to clean out all references to > messages more than a week old, since getting duplicates more than a week > apart would practically never happen. > > -Jules > > Dennis Sjogren wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > We've been running the Cyrus IMAP server for couple of months now. Apart > > from the server experiencing high load (we'll throw money at it and see > > what happens) from time to time, it's mostly been smooth sailing. > > > > However, one thing is a bit worrying. Startup of the Cyrus software > > takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes. For some reason, email services seems > > important to our users. :) Anyway, as any organization, we try to > > minimize downtime in core services as much as possible, but this long > > startup time really makes that difficult. > > > > I've googled ALOT, and found some users with similar problems or worse. > > Some guy had a startup time of 4 hours! However, no real solution has > > emerged. The wiki suggests checkpointing more often, but we already do > > that every 10 minutes. Shouldn't that be enough? > > > > Any suggestions, ideas, comments would be appreciated. Developers > > comments? Here are our specs: > > > > HOST: Sun Sunfire V240 > > CPU: 2 x 1.2GHz > > MEM: 2GB (will be upgraded to 4GB asap) > > DISK: (db) 2 x 10k RPM, internal, mirrored, UFS, nologging > > DISK: (spool) SAN (6120-system) > > > > Cyrus v2.2.5, BerkelyDB 4.2 + default patches > > Everything compiled with GCC 3.4.0 > > mailboxes.db about 10MB > > deliver.db about 18MB > > About 10k users on system, unknown number of mailboxes, though about 4M > > inodes are used on /var/spool/imap. > -- > Jules Agee > System Administrator > Pacific Coast Feather Co. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] x284 > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html