On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: > UW seems to like to write temporary copies of mailboxes to /tmp. We ran > into a problem where it would fill up /tmp and barf, causing a variety > of weird problems.
I am aware of that particular issue, but this does not appear to be it. /tmp has plenty of space, and it has not been full for any of our checks. There are some large mailboxes, in the 100+ MB range, with thousands of messages in them. As we know, UW-IMAP likes to do full-rewrites of the mailbox data. It also has to read through and index the folder on every open. Combine this with MS Outlook, which appears to close and re-open the IMAP session more often than the UW people expect. Additionally, they run the MS-Windows equivalent of an IMAP "xbiff" on each PC, which appears to cause file lock contention/breaking issues. Moving to Cyrus IMAP (or other, similar systems) sounds good for a number of reasons. Deletes/expunges are much more efficient. Indexes are kept on disk. One-file-per-message drastically reduces the chances of lock contention. At least, that is the theory. It remains to be seen how well it will work in practice. :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
