[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 24.10.2012 16:45, schrieb Charles Marcus:
> On 2012-10-24 10:01 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> If the box is truly unresponsive, i.e. hard locked, then the corrupted
>> indexes are only a symptom of the underlying problem, which is unrelated
>> to Dovecot, UNLESS, the lack of responsiveness was due to massive disk
>> access, which will occur when rebuilding indexes on a 6.6GB mailbox.
>> You need to know the difference so we have accurate information to
>> troubleshoot with.
> 
> Hmmm... I wonder would it be possible for dovecot to automatically lower
> the 'niceness' for index rebuilds (on systems that support such) to
> avoid causing such distress?
> 

i think you missed Stans point ,looking for some hardware problems first


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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