Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ...

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart wrote: Yes, the indexes are also on NFS. The locking is fcntl() - the default. I'm guessing that's the problem. NFS locking seems to break/hang randomly sometimes. Can you somehow restart the NFS server locking daemon? I changed the /etc/hosts.allow so that any

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ...

2009-01-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z/zabala/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log This is the main problem. So indexes are also on NFS? What locking

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ...

2009-01-07 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z/zabala/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log This is the main problem. So indexes are also

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ...

2009-01-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 08:32 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ...

2009-01-07 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 08:32 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file

[Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ...

2009-01-06 Thread Jack Stewart
Hi, Up until yesterday, our environment which consists an NFS maildir file store with multiple front end servers, was working fine. We've verified that the server clocks and machines clocks are in sync. Starting yesterday afternoon, We are getting ~850 log entries of the form 'Timeout