Anyone know how to fix this?
In reply to myself, some more info...
Using Google I found some hints that maybe the cache size is too small... but how can that be fixed? Or... since this is BDB and the machine is a sparc64, it's some memory alignment issue?
# l /var/lib/dovecot/ total 3116 drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel - 512B Jan 22 11:26 ./ drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel - 512B Jan 15 11:23 ../ -rw------- 1 root wheel - 24.0K Jan 23 07:13 __db.001 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 64.0K Jan 23 07:13 __db.002 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 264K Jan 23 07:13 __db.003 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 96.0K Jan 23 07:13 __db.004 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 56.0K Jan 23 07:13 __db.005 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 0B Jan 15 12:01 auth-success -rw------- 1 root wheel - 32.0K Jan 22 13:58 expire.db -rw------- 1 root wheel - 10.0M Jan 22 23:03 log.0000000001 -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel - 236B Jan 22 11:26 ssl-parameters.dat
There is a 1.1.9 release candidate available which contains fixes for Berkeley DB. Maybe this solves your issues.
http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.1.9.rc.tar.gzChanges since v1.1.8: ...
- Berkeley DB memory/resource leak fixes. ...