Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-11 Thread David L. Parsley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul Wiechman wrote: > > OK, > > Thanks, How do I tell Linux to add more file descriptors? eg: echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max I've had to do this on LOTS of my Linux boxen. This should be docume

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-11 Thread David L. Parsley
I forgot to mention: when my Linux box ran out of fd's, LOTS of mailboxes got corrupted db files and such. Very messy. In the end, I ran 'at 2am' and had it do a reconstruct -r user. For a while there, reconstruct was my friend. Thankfully, I haven't needed to run it in a while. regards,

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-11 Thread Daryl Tester
Paul Wiechman wrote: > edited it in /proc/sys/fs/file-max > > Went to the extreme to try to get it to work. Well, as I said, you need to bump up fs.inode-max (/proc/sys/fs/inode-max in old-speak) as well, plus you neet to bump up your per-process limit (the kernel documentation in Documentation

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-10 Thread Paul Wiechman
edited it in /proc/sys/fs/file-max Went to the extreme to try to get it to work. Paul Daryl Tester wrote: > > Paul Wiechman wrote: > > > That didn't work. Gave Linux 65535 FD's and quota still gives 'quota: > > System I/O error Too many open files'. > > _Where_ (and how) did you give Linux t

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-10 Thread Daryl Tester
Paul Wiechman wrote: > That didn't work. Gave Linux 65535 FD's and quota still gives 'quota: > System I/O error Too many open files'. _Where_ (and how) did you give Linux that many file descriptors? There is a system wide limit defined (in fs.file-max and fs.inode-max in sysctl naming convention

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-10 Thread eric
Paul Wiechman wrote: > > OK, > > Thanks, How do I tell Linux to add more file descriptors? > > Paul I believe in linux that would be echo #_of_descriptors > /proc/sys/fs/file-max Eric S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-10 Thread Paul Wiechman
OK, That didn't work. Gave Linux 65535 FD's and quota still gives 'quota: System I/O error Too many open files'. Now if I erase ALL the quota roots, quota runs as I would expect. In order to repair the quotaroots, are the supposed to be deleted and then recreated via setquota command? Then run

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-09 Thread Paul Wiechman
OK, Thanks, How do I tell Linux to add more file descriptors? Paul Tom Samplonius wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Paul Wiechman wrote: > > > I have used the /usr/cyrus/bin/quota -f to very little success, I get > > 'System I/O Error: too many open files' usually. > > You need to configure y

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-09 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Paul Wiechman wrote: > I have used the /usr/cyrus/bin/quota -f to very little success, I get > 'System I/O Error: too many open files' usually. You need to configure your OS to let you use more file descriptors. This is probably causing your quotas to get trashed to begin

Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-09 Thread Paul Wiechman
All, I have been wrestling with this issue for a while. I usually get it to work by accident. But I would like to know the PROPER way to fix, repair and delete (i.e. have no quota) quotas when they get askew. I have used the /usr/cyrus/bin/quota -f to very little success, I get 'System I/O Erro