Re: [Dovecot] Using a ramdisk but Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:50 +0000, Andrew Hearn wrote:

Mar 02 11:47:14 POP3(USERDELETED): Error: Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /ramdisk/indexes/DOMAINDELETED/USERDELETED/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log

Our NFS is rather busy, and we having other warnings to that affect, but wouldn't have though we'd get timeouts on a ramdisk.

Could your NFS be so busy that some requests can take over 3 minutes? (Or maybe the request just got completely lost?) At least in that situation that can happen: Process a locks dovecot.index.log, then starts reading/writing dovecot-uidlist file, which takes >3 minutes and in the mean time process b tries to lock dovecot.index.log but fails after 3 mins of waiting.