[Dovecot] Panic: IMAP: Trying to allocate 2273345672 bytes

Mark Zealey Mark.Zealey at webfusion.com
Wed Sep 10 14:25:58 EEST 2008


I've just found another user that has the exact same error message (same
number of bytes). However, this error only happened once, the user has
logged in successfully since then and there was not an error about the
uidlist having duplicate entries.

Thanks,

Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+mark.zealey=webfusion.com at dovecot.org 
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+mark.zealey=webfusion.com at dovecot.org]
>  On Behalf Of Mark Zealey
> Sent: 10 September 2008 12:21
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: [Dovecot] Panic: IMAP: Trying to allocate 2273345672 bytes
> 
> Hi, we're running dovecot 1.1.2 (centos5 32-bit rpm from 
> atrpms) havn't
> had any real issues with it, but today it looks like an index 
> has become
> badly corrupted. We're seeing this in the logs every time we 
> log in to a
> particular account:
> 
> 2008-09-10T11:56:07+01:00 mail8 dovecot: Panic: IMAP(xxx): Trying to
> allocate 2273345672 bytes
> 2008-09-10T11:56:07+01:00 mail8 dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Raw backtrace:
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80d0310] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> [0x80d036a] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80cfc2c] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80d966c] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> [0x80ce750] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(buffer_create_dynamic+0x30)
> [0x80ce800] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_index_sync_ext_intro+0x4d5) [0x80c0145]
> -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_index_sync_record+0x135) [0x80b11b5]
> -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_index_sync_map+0x269) [0x80b1d79] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_index_map+0x38e) [0x80ab17e] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80a825c] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_index_open+0x1f4) [0x80a8554] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x79) [0x809ca39]
> -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x806d339] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> [0x806e1fa] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mailbox_open+0x49) 
> [0x80a09e9]
> -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(cmd_select_full+0xa9) [0x805e459] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(cmd_select+0x19) [0x805e629] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x805fdec] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> [0x805fe95] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8060655] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5e) [0x806086e] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x100) [0x80d7c80] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80d6df8] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(main+0x4ac) [0x80683ec] ->
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x8c8dec] ->
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x805a171]
> 
> This account has about 12 mails in cur, nothing in new. Shortly before
> this corruption started, I saw entries like:
> 
> 2008-09-10T10:20:15+01:00 mail9 dovecot: IMAP(xxx):
> /var/spool/mail/supplier_2/xxx/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file
> entry at line 2:
> 1217249435.M999046P25889.mail7.atlas.pipex.net,W=2673:2,S 
> (uid 1 -> 14)
> ...
> 
> For all the mails in the cur directory.
> 
> About our setup: These are on an nfs-mounted file system. It's shared
> between two computers and connections are randomly redirected 
> to either
> box; so potentially it could be an nfs type corruption issue. 
> Timo, I'll
> send you a tarball of the dovecot* files off-list
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
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> Product Development * Webfusion
> 123-reg.co.uk, webfusion.co.uk, donhost.co.uk, supanames.co.uk
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