[Dovecot] Worse now: Cores

Kristian Koehntopp kris at koehntopp.de
Wed Dec 5 21:43:09 EET 2007


On Wednesday, 5. December 2007 20:21:32 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I am in the process of moving my mailboxes from an overloaded cyrus-box
> > to a new dovecot installation. The suse-supplied 1.0.rc14 did break down
> > with signal 6 asserts "seq 1 < seq2 ...", so I compiled a download of
> > 1.0.8 instead. This did not change a thing.
>
> How easily can you crash it? What do you use as filesystem?

h743107:/var/log # grep signal dovecot.log | perl -n -e '($m = $_ ) 
=~ /(dovecot: .*signal.*)/ and ( $m = $1 ) =~ s/child \d+/child PID/ and 
print "$m\n";'| sort | uniq -c
     17 dovecot: child PID (imap) killed with signal 11
    607 dovecot: child PID (imap) killed with signal 6

h743107:/var/log # head -1 dovecot.log
Dec  1 23:31:10 h743107 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc14 starting up
h743107:/var/log # tail -1 dovecot.log
Dec  5 20:41:18 h743107 dovecot: IMAP(azundris): Disconnected: Logged out

h743107:/var/log # df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3     ext3    149G  6.8G  135G   5% /
udev         tmpfs    506M   88K  506M   1% /dev
/dev/sda1     ext2     54M  7.2M   44M  15% /boot
/dev/sdb2 reiserfs    153G   38G  115G  25% /home

h743107:/var/log # cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
VERSION = 10.2

I am using INBOX as $HOME/Maildir/, this is on reiserfs. The / is ext3 with 
dir_index.

Kris

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