On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:51 +1000, Rob Mueller wrote: > > - cyrus-imapd-2.3.7 (from RHEL5/CentOS-5) with some minor patches in the > > popd (UUID format and an enhancement to the authentication - both > > shouldn't have any impact on the storage part) > > As I'm sure others will mention, this is a quite old cyrus now with many Well, the "stable" one from RHEL5/CentOS-5. > known bugs. "Update" is replacing known bugs with unknown bugs;-) SCNR .... > You chould definitely consider upgrading to Simon Matters RPMs > > <http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/> Will have a look at it.
> > It happened now and then and is somewhat inconvenient. > > And it's not fun if the /var/log partition is full just because > > cyr_expire stumbles over a corrupted BDB. > > We used to see this every now and then as well, but it's stopped since we > fixed this bug: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cyrus-de...@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg01123.html idled isn't IMHO probably not the cause hereover: ---- snip ---- 1001#po-a:grep idled /etc/cyrus.conf # this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE # idled cmd="idled" 1002#po-a: ---- snip ---- And that wasn't changed in years. [...] > > We switched to iSCSI just recently - so that's the only really "new" > > thing in the setup. > > I think it's either a coincidence (eg the bug is not iSCSI related), or if > it is iSCSI related, it's not directly related, and probably just caused by > timing race changes created by a change in the storage layer. I also don't believe in simple iSCSI bugs - it's IMHO old enough and too much used for that. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
