[Dovecot] record points outside file error with dovecot revision 9116:9ae55b68cf61
Jonathan Siegle
jsiegle at psu.edu
Tue Jun 9 13:40:17 EEST 2009
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:11 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:14 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
>>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:31 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
>>>>> Are you saying that multiple processes on the same
>>>>> folder(INBOX) on
>>>>> the same IMAP server can cause this collision as well? Is there a
>>>>> difference between running multiple processes on the same
>>>>> folder(INBOX) on multiple IMAP servers vs running multiple
>>>>> processes
>>>>> on the same folder on a single IMAP server?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know. That depends on how GPFS is implemented.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pick a local filesystem, say ext3?
>>
>> But with ext3 you can't have multiple servers accessing the same
>> filesystem.
>
> But of course there are no problems (well, some very rare random ones
> maybe) having multiple processes accessing the same mailbox on the
> same
> server. Ever since I wrote my imaptest tool (a few years ago?) I've
> been
> heavily stress testing multiple connections modifying the mailbox at
> the
> same time.
Timo,
Can you tell me what platform/filesystem you use for testing? Oh and
can you hint at what "bad things" may happen when I get the error
"record points outside file"?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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