[Dovecot] Re: Hang in 1.0.alpha4

[Mark Plaksin]

Mark Plaksin <happy at usg.edu> writes:

> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:57 -0400, Mark Plaksin wrote:
>>
>>> My IMAP client hangs intermittently.  When it does, Dovecot has prematurely
>>> stopped sending a response and entered the poll loop.  My client is waiting
>>> for more data and Dovecot is waiting for an IMAP command.
>>
>> If you can easily reproduce this, could you try it with this patch:
>>
>> http://dovecot.org/patches/hang-debug.diff>
>> And show what the log files says after it hangs?
>
> Running with CVS from 10.27.05 15:09 EDT and this patch, I get folder
> corruption.  I can't easily reproduce it but it happens frequently (4 times
> in 3 hours this morning).
>
> The patch looks innocuous so I suspect CVS.  alpha4 doesn't have the
> problem.  Is there anything in CVS which could have affected this?  I'll
> update to the latest CVS and try some more.

After 24 hours, CVS from 10.31.05 11:09 EST has not corrupted any folders.
Also, the original hang problem I reported has not recurred since I started
running the CVS version on 10.27.05.

Perhaps all my troubles are over!