[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die
Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
daniel at copyleft.no
Tue Jan 16 11:37:33 UTC 2007
Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>>>> Nov 8 20:36:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Corrupted index file
>>>>>> /var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.Postfix/dovecot.index: Duplicate header
>>>>>> extension keywords
>
> Wonder if rc17 fixes this?
Yes, rc17 appears to solve the problems. I've had no reports since I
upgraded from rc13 to rc17 and turned off workarounds.
>> FWIW: I've set "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no" as a workaround here,
>> and there's no discernable effect on performance.
>
> I think it's a workaround only because it slows down Dovecot enough so
> this problem just doesn't happen anymore.
That sounds likely. Dovecot feels much faster after rc17 and without the
workarounds.
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Daniel Mikkelsen
Copyleft Software AS
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