On 2/16/2009 9:50 PM, Grandy Fu wrote:
> I am running dovecot 1.1.10 and 1.1.11 on Solaris 10, mailboxes are in
> mbox format and served by Solaris 10 NFSv3, the dovecot cache is on
> local disk.
>
> Some of my users always had above nfs error and their mailbox usually
> very big, over 100M, 400M, or even 800M.
Please don't put the entire error message in the subject.
Sorry about that.
Please post output of dovecot -n and some logs exhibiting the problem.
Here is some log entries.
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dovecot: Feb 19 10:07:02 Error: IMAP(user):
nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
dovecot: Feb 19 10:07:02 Error: IMAP(user):
nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
dovecot: Feb 19 10:07:02 Error: IMAP(user):
nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
dovecot: Feb 19 10:07:02 Error: IMAP(user):
nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
dovecot: Feb 19 10:07:02 Error: IMAP(user):
nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
dovecot: Feb 19 10:07:02 Error: IMAP(user):
nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
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part of dovecot -n output
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# 1.1.11: /usr/local/.dovecot1111/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u
log_path: /var/log/dovecot
protocols: imaps pop3s imap
listen(default): *:143
listen(imap): *:143
listen(pop3): *
ssl_listen(default): *:993
ssl_listen(imap): *:993
ssl_listen(pop3):
login_dir: /usr/local/.dovecot1111/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default):
/usr/local/.dovecot1111/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/.dovecot1111/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/.dovecot1111/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location:
mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/localdisk/dovecot.cache/cache/%n
mail_debug: yes
mmap_disable: yes
dotlock_use_excl: no
mail_nfs_storage: yes
lock_method: dotlock
mbox_read_locks: dotlock
mbox_write_locks: dotlock
mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 30
plugin:
quota: fs:INBOX:user:mount=/var/mail
quota2: fs:home:noenforcing:mount=/home
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The problem happens to users' with their inbox over 100M and it happens
randomly.
Grandy
