Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-16 Thread Rui Gouveia
Hi, I've followed this thread with plenty of interest, because we've had the same problem for quiet some time. Since we have upgraded from FC? to RHAS3 a year ago. As recommended by You, we switched to the skiplist format, one weak ago. You asked to be informed of the changes. Here they are:

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-16 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, I've followed this thread with plenty of interest, because we've had the same problem for quiet some time. Since we have upgraded from FC? to RHAS3 a year ago. As recommended by You, we switched to the skiplist format, one weak ago. You asked to be informed of the changes. Here they

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-16 Thread Rui Gouveia
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:01 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: Hi, Thank you for the feedback, it's important for me to hear how it works for others. Is this a large server where you had the BerkeleyDB problems? Simon The server I wrote about is a small one. Here's the details. # cat

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Raines
As the originator of the thread, I should report. We have been running without a problem for four days with the change. It is a medium sized server with about 500 active accounts but around 2GB of traffic per day. It is a dual Xeon 3.0GHz EM64T with 4GB ram running CentOS 4.1 x86_64 --

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Raines
Well, I tried this and aborted the conversion. The cvt_cyrusdb ran for 10 minutes by which time my 10MB deliver.db file had become a 1GB deliver.db.skiplist file. So I simply moved the current deliver.db and tls_sessions.db aside, configured imapd.conf for skiplist on them, and then started

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Raines
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote: One special note: The cyrus-imapd package you are using (the package from RHEL4 is based on my Invoca package) tries to convert the db files automatically on startup. However, the version you have has a bug which prevents it from converting all db files

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-09 Thread Simon Matter
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote: One special note: The cyrus-imapd package you are using (the package from RHEL4 is based on my Invoca package) tries to convert the db files automatically on startup. However, the version you have has a bug which prevents it from converting all db

constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Raines
We are having constant problems with cyrus locking up and filling up the system log with gigabytes of errors like this: Sep 8 13:07:09 mail master[23769]: process 21100 exited, status 75 Sep 8 13:07:09 mail master[23769]: service imaps pid 21100 in READY state: terminated abnormally Sep 8

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Raines
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote: You may want to switch berkeley dbs to skiplist to try how it goes. By default only duplicate_db and tlscache_db are berkeley so you may try this in /etc/imapd.conf: duplicate_db: skiplist tlscache_db: skiplist Will this change what is used for the

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-08 Thread Simon Matter
We are having constant problems with cyrus locking up and filling up the system log with gigabytes of errors like this: Sep 8 13:07:09 mail master[23769]: process 21100 exited, status 75 Sep 8 13:07:09 mail master[23769]: service imaps pid 21100 in READY state: terminated abnormally Sep

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-08 Thread Simon Matter
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote: You may want to switch berkeley dbs to skiplist to try how it goes. By default only duplicate_db and tlscache_db are berkeley so you may try this in /etc/imapd.conf: duplicate_db: skiplist tlscache_db: skiplist Will this change what is used for the

Re: constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Raines
Okay, thanks. I will try this next time I can take things down On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote: You may want to switch berkeley dbs to skiplist to try how it goes. By default only duplicate_db and tlscache_db are berkeley so you may try this in