[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

[Luigi Rosa]

Timo Sirainen said the following On 7/11/2006 22:39:

> Oh, right, the patch.

Sigh! ;(((

Nov  8 16:20:41 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Fixed index file 
/var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.HT list/dovecot.index: 
first_recent_uid_lowwater 4407 -> 4406
Nov  8 16:20:41 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Corrupted index file 
/var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.HT list/dovecot.index: Duplicate header 
extension keywords
Nov  8 16:21:43 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Corrupted index file 
/var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.HT list/dovecot.index: Duplicate header 
extension keywords


This events has been loggd few moments ago when "too many open files" 
message arrived and Thunderbird moved it to Dovecot mailbox.

I think that is some kind of race condition that occurs only when 
there are "fast" servers. In am not talking about supercomputers, but 
situiations of realtively small amount of workload. This situation 
coul be worsened by a direct LAN connection between client and server 
and a frequent (mine is 1 minute) check by mail client. Could it be 
possible?


Please note that your patch was useful because this is the first error 
I get in 12 hours, previously I got this kind of error more often.


Ciao,
luigi

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