Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?
Clement Hermann (nodens) wrote: Le 21/06/2011 18:28, Michael D. Sofka a écrit : I run squatter in a perl program that forks three parallel squatter processes on individual user's mailboxes. If a mailbox is locked the particular squatter processing the mailbox quits, but the main program continues to fork new processes for the remaining mailboxes. The program checkpoints each user, shuts down at 6 A.M., and continues where it left off the following day. Looks nice. Maybe you could share this script ? I could use a squatter with some parallelization and a way to stop it when the load is starting to grow (like in the morning). I guess it could be modified to use other parameters to know when to stop : number of logged-in users or imap/pop processes, system load... Cheers, I'm looking over the paperwork needed to share the program (welcome to 21st Century academia). If I get approval, I'll consider adding other termination/pause options. Our 24 hour load-cycle is fairly predicable. But I can see how logged-in users, and load average would be useful. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu CMT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:16:07AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: All, While migrating a few accounts from Exchange to Cyrus ( has nothing to do with the below really) and staring at log files I noted the following squatter[70553]: error locking index user/xyz: Mailbox is locked by POP server and squatter bails out without indexing the remaining mailboxes. Is this expected behaviour in 2.3.16? Sorry, POP locking in cyrus before 2.4.x is a bit of a mess. Yeah, it's expected for some value - the bailing out kind of sucks too, but I really don't want to try and fix 2.3.x any more. Bron ( particularly things like this that I changed the locking architecture specifically to avoid! ) Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?
On 06/21/11 08:23, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:16:07AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: All, While migrating a few accounts from Exchange to Cyrus ( has nothing to do with the below really) and staring at log files I noted the following squatter[70553]: error locking index user/xyz: Mailbox is locked by POP server and squatter bails out without indexing the remaining mailboxes. Is this expected behaviour in 2.3.16? Sorry, POP locking in cyrus before 2.4.x is a bit of a mess. Yeah, it's expected for some value - the bailing out kind of sucks too, but I really don't want to try and fix 2.3.x any more. Bron ( particularly things like this that I changed the locking architecture specifically to avoid! ) OK, thanks, should have read more b4 posting I suppose. We have an upgrade plan in the works anyway and we would not want you to spend time on older stuff. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: All, While migrating a few accounts from Exchange to Cyrus ( has nothing to do with the below really) and staring at log files I noted the following squatter[70553]: error locking index user/xyz: Mailbox is locked by POP server and squatter bails out without indexing the remaining mailboxes. Is this expected behaviour in 2.3.16? I run squatter in a perl program that forks three parallel squatter processes on individual user's mailboxes. If a mailbox is locked the particular squatter processing the mailbox quits, but the main program continues to fork new processes for the remaining mailboxes. The program checkpoints each user, shuts down at 6 A.M., and continues where it left off the following day. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu CMT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?
Le 21/06/2011 18:28, Michael D. Sofka a écrit : I run squatter in a perl program that forks three parallel squatter processes on individual user's mailboxes. If a mailbox is locked the particular squatter processing the mailbox quits, but the main program continues to fork new processes for the remaining mailboxes. The program checkpoints each user, shuts down at 6 A.M., and continues where it left off the following day. Looks nice. Maybe you could share this script ? I could use a squatter with some parallelization and a way to stop it when the load is starting to grow (like in the morning). I guess it could be modified to use other parameters to know when to stop : number of logged-in users or imap/pop processes, system load... Cheers, -- Clement Hermann (nodens) - L'air pur ? c'est pas en RL, ça ? c'est pas hors charte ? Jean in L'Histoire des Pingouins, http://tnemeth.free.fr/fmbl/linuxsf/ Vous trouverez ma clef publique sur le serveur public pgp.mit.edu. Please find my public key on the public keyserver pgp.mit.edu. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?
All, While migrating a few accounts from Exchange to Cyrus ( has nothing to do with the below really) and staring at log files I noted the following squatter[70553]: error locking index user/xyz: Mailbox is locked by POP server and squatter bails out without indexing the remaining mailboxes. Is this expected behaviour in 2.3.16? Thanks, Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
