[Dovecot] More msync issues...

[Doug Luce]

Andrew,

Thanks for taking a shot at diagnosing this.  That space is actually an 
artifact of me pasting log entries into the email.  It doesn't exist in 
the config file or anywhere else.

Dioug



On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Andrew Hutchings wrote:

> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:05:30 +0000
> From: Andrew Hutchings <mail at a-wing.co.uk>
> To: Doug Luce <doug at dovecot.con.com>
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] More msync issues...
> 
> Hi Doug,
>
> I think this might be because there is a space between /home
> and /doug/Maildir/dovecot.index
> It would then see the /doug/Maildir/dovecot.index as a second argument.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
>
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 05:12 -0500, Doug Luce wrote:
>>> From /var/log/maillog:
>>
>> Dec 8 01:51:46 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home /doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument
>>
>>> From the ktrace that was running on that process:
>>
>>   22124 imap     NAMI  "/home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index"
>>   22124 imap     RET   stat 0
>>   22124 imap     CALL  fcntl(0x4,0x8,0x11ffe7b8)
>>   22124 imap     RET   fcntl 0
>>   22124 imap     CALL  msync(0x130960000,0x1aff4,0)
>>   22124 imap     RET   msync -1 errno 22 Invalid argument
>>
>>> From man msync:
>>
>> ERRORS
>>       The msync() system call will fail if:
>>
>>       ...
>>
>>       [EINVAL]           The addr argument is not a multiple of the hardware
>>                          page size.
>>
>>> From the command line:
>>
>>   % pagesize
>>   8192
>>
>> Calculating:
>>
>>   0x1AFF4 = 110580 = 13*8192+4084
>>
>> Not sure if this is relevant...
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
> -- 
> Andrew Hutchings
> Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru
> Netserve Consultants Ltd.
> http://www.domaincity.co.uk/
>
>