[Dovecot] mailbox count folders issues

[Nikita Koshikov]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:38:22 -0400
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:11 +0200, Nikita Koshikov wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:17:52 -0400
> > Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:39 +0200, Nikita Koshikov wrote:
> > > > > > Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a at domain.com): Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435472 bytes
> > > > > > Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a at domain.com): Error: *** glibc detected *** imap: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0812ba00 ***
> > > 
> > > Oh, the double free is because of broken handling of out-of-memory
> > > error. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/acfef2f0fec3 probably fixes
> > > that.
> > 
> > Sorry, but this patch didn't help.
> 
> Not with the "out of memory", but did it get rid of the "double free or
> corruption" error?
> 
> > > Hmm. So I guess there's no memory corruption causing this, but I don't
> > > really see why it would try to allocate that much memory. 268435472 in
> > > hex is 0x10000010, which is an interesting number but doesn't really
> > > help much either.
> > 268435456 is 256M which is max mail_process_size config setting, maybe this values is in use ? 
> 
> I guess it's just exponentially increasing the buffer size then until it
> reaches mail_process_size.
> 
> > I recompile dovecot binaries with debug symbols, but seemed that gdb backtrace is broken.
> 
> Yeah, it is. Hmm. Since the core isn't working, can you attach gdb to
> imap process while it's still running? So something like:
> 
>  - open the account so imap process starts
>  - gdb -p <imap process pid>
>  - gdb command: c
>  - cause imap to crash -> gdb should stop
>  - gdb command: bt full
> 

One more note:
version 1.2.4 also has this bug.