[Dovecot] 1.0.rc26 released

[Stewart Dean]

Well, swtich to UW-IMAP and you could have hundreds...as many as 600+

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:02 -0800, Dan Price wrote:
>   
>> On Wed 07 Mar 2007 at 02:28AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>     
>>> http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc26.tar.gz
>>> http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc26.tar.gz.sig
>>>
>>> Most importantly this should fix mbox problems in recent RCs.
>>>       
>> (Sorry for the long mail)
>>
>> I've got rc26 up and running on our production box, and we are now
>> migrating users onto it.  In a few days we'll see higher user load than
>> we saw in our pilot deployment.  So far things look mixed.  Some
>> observations:
>>
>> - I'm seeing a lot more imap-login's around than I am used to.  Usually
>>   there have been just 3; maybe no big deal...?  Maybe I made a settings
>>   mistake?
>>
>>   # pgrep -x imap-login | wc -l
>>         27
>>   # pgrep -x imap | wc -l
>>         30
>>     
>
> Do you have login_process_per_connection=yes? If so, they're probably
> proxying SSL connections.
>
>   
>>         #6  0x08087b2f in mbox_sync_rewrite (sync_ctx=0x8047800, mail_ctx=0x0, 
>>             end_offset=138189881, move_diff=742, extra_space=The value of variable 'extra_space' is distributed across several
>>         locations, and GDB cannot access its value.
>>
>>         )
>>             at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:566
>>                 mails = (struct mbox_sync_mail *) 0x811dc48
>>                 offset = The value of variable 'offset' is distributed across several
>>         locations, and GDB cannot access its value.
>>     
>
> Hmm. I don't think I've seen this assert-crash before. If it's happening
> often, compiling without -O2 might help more in debugging it.
>
>   
>> - Dovecot is still *really* noisy on endianness switchover, and also I think
>>   it has been crashy, too:
>>     
>
> Looks like I didn't finish fixing the endianess conversion problems.
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/007997.html should fix
> them so that it only complains "Corrupted index cache
> dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed"
>
>   
>>         Error: IMAP(foobar): file client.c: line 412 (_client_input): assertion failed: (!client->handling_input)
>>     
>
> Any chance of getting gdb backtrace from this?
>
>   
>>     Error: IMAP(foobar): Raw backtrace: 0x80b8fd3 -> 0x806c1da -> 0x8068f2d -> 0x8069169 -> 0x8069222 -> 0x806935f -> 0x806bfd7 -> 0x806bf5e -> 0x806c140 -> 0x80be67d -> 0x80be0b5 -> 0x8072fac -> 0x806722c
>>     
>
> If not, this could be used with gdb to get it:
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017682.html
>   

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