[Dovecot] 1.0-test CVS HEAD index problems

Tomi Hakala tomi.hakala at clinet.fi
Thu Dec 2 00:13:18 EET 2004


Jim Lawson wrote:
> All of them appear locking-related, or just the assertion failure?

My best guess is that all problems are result of locking problem.

> Same configuration here.  We use flock with UW IMAPd (no dotlocks) and 
> procmail, and it seems to work fine.

Maybe there is some issues with flock on GFS, have you tried dotlocking
with Dovecot?

> Glad to meet someone using Polyserve.  Can you tell me more about your 
> cluster?  Is it just for mail access?  How many nodes? How many users?

For now it's just a small lab setup with two RHEL 3 nodes, no real
users.

> All the mail is stored on RAID-10, mailboxes and indexes.  Splitting up 
> the spindles might help somewhat, but having them together shouldn't 
> cause problems like this, right?

No, it's just for a performance.

-- 
Tomi Hakala


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