[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-10-24 10:01 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> If the box is truly unresponsive, i.e. hard locked, then the corrupted
> indexes are only a symptom of the underlying problem, which is unrelated
> to Dovecot, UNLESS, the lack of responsiveness was due to massive disk
> access, which will occur when rebuilding indexes on a 6.6GB mailbox.
> You need to know the difference so we have accurate information to
> troubleshoot with.

Hmmm... I wonder would it be possible for dovecot to automatically lower 
the 'niceness' for index rebuilds (on systems that support such) to 
avoid causing such distress?

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Best regards,

Charles