On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:14:48PM +0100, Gaby vanhegan wrote:
The problem I have is that occasionally dovecot corrupts an index file (I think), which causes the process to gradually creep up in usage, until it hits 99%, where it stays, without quitting. If I then fire up my mail client later on, it does the same thing. Doing this two or three times results in 3 processes, all at 33%, and a load of 100 on the server.
Has anybody else suffered this problem? Is there a fix in a more recent version? Is it OpenBSD specific? What can I do to help diagnose the problem? Should I turn of indexes? Upgrade to the latest version?
I had same problems on OpenBSD 3.4, and disabling indexes appeared to work as a workaround. Haven't tried finding any real solution, thou.
Recently on misc@openbsd in thread "secure way to do IMAP" somebody mentioned this problem and suggested (surprise !) disabling indexes.
Also, take a look at this: marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=111283606230429&w=2 If you try this patch, please let me know your results.
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