23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
11:59 p.m.
Dean Blackburn wrote:
I'm running beta3 (upgraded from beta1) on OS X 10.4.4, and we're basically seeing two problems:
- total imap/dovecot crash after a period of repeated "too many files open" errors... Restarting fixes it, but we'll see if increasing the open files limit is the answer or not... Never run into this with anything before, so I'm not confident;
Several other people on this list have run into this problem, and I believe raising the limit has solved the issue for them.
- individual user accounts will become inaccessible occasionally when multiple clients are hitting the account at once (checking from home and work) - deleting all dovecot* files in the maildir fixes this, but... I thought Dovecot was supposed to catch this kind of thing and regenerate the files by itself? I think this is also the "locking problem" in the sense that once this occurs, the directory will fill up with lockfiles for each message the user unsuccessfully tries to load from the client side.
This really sounds like a locking issue more than index corruption. Are your INDEX and CONTROL files stored on NFS? I believe this is still discouraged, with the next version having better/safer locking.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net