Re: mbsync hang, ANNOUNCE: socketwatch, and mbsync exit

2011-07-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 09:56:13PM -0700, Chris Frost wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:11:22PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > does this happen with current master? with the async branch? > > This was far before the current master and before the async branch. > it may be fixed then. please

Re: mbsync hang, ANNOUNCE: socketwatch, and mbsync exit

2011-07-18 Thread Chris Frost
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:11:22PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0700, Chris Frost wrote: > > I've noticed, for a few years or more, that mbsync will sometimes appear to > > hang. > > > i remember we talked about that before. i suppose you did not make > pr

Re: mbsync hang, ANNOUNCE: socketwatch, and mbsync exit

2011-07-18 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi, On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0700, Chris Frost wrote: > I've noticed, for a few years or more, that mbsync will sometimes appear to > hang. > i remember we talked about that before. i suppose you did not make progress investigating this? irrespective of particular bugs, mbsync should g

mbsync hang, ANNOUNCE: socketwatch, and mbsync exit

2011-07-17 Thread Chris Frost
Two bugs and round-about fixes: Bug #1: I've noticed, for a few years or more, that mbsync will sometimes appear to hang. That is, it will stop making progress in syncing mail and stay in this state. I've noticed it stay stuck for up to a day or two, when I would kill the mbsync process. I would s

Re: mbsync hang

2008-09-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:09:18PM -0700, Chris Frost wrote: > I've now caught a particular hang instance with mbsync compiled with > debug symbols and so finally have a backtrace, which I hope will be > insightful? > output with the -V option *might* help more in this case. strace -tt output, too

mbsync hang

2008-09-20 Thread Chris Frost
I've found that mbsync occasionally "gets stuck", not doing any work as far as I can see from cpu and network activity and not exiting until I kill it some number of hours after it becomes stuck. "Occasionally" is once every few weeks to months. This is a problem for me because a daemon runs mbsync