[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-10-24 12:16 PM, Robert Schetterer <rs at sys4.de> wrote:
> 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

No, I was simply commenting on the one point about heavy load during 
large index rebuilds - which is why I trimmed the quoted text... maybe I 
could have trimmed more?

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Best regards,

Charles