This is a workaround. We really need a solution to the
problem. We will be looking into some alternatives to
sleepycats library for some of the databases. I was
thinking about trying the tdb library from samba
project.
Or maybe there should be some way to, hm 'renice' the
lmtpd having a locks in favour of POP/IMAP processes ?
H.
--- Dori Seliskar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I can confirm that with this solution works,
> but there is still a problem with cyrus which
> should be fixed.
>
> Regards,
>
> ds
>
> Nick Ustinov wrote:
>
> > I have solved the problem my switching sendmail to
> DeliverMode=q with 1m
> > interval
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Helmut Apfelholz
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 19:04
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: forking problem cd..
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > here's some more info on 'forking problem'. We
> have
> > experienced this again today. The server stopped
> > showing the prompt at imap/pop ports.
> >
> > At that moment I was trying to run reconstruct,
> > however
> > it looks like it was unable to access
> > /var/imap/deliverdb/db/__db.005 file
> >
> > the strace was showing timeouts on select() trying
> to
> > read from that file.
> > After restarting the master process, everything
> was
> > back to normal.
> >
> > During this event the system was lightly loaded
> 1-2,
> > and only 100 processess where running.
> >
> > Maybe this might be of some help to ppl who also
> have
> > this problem and know a bit more c than we do ;)
> >
> > Helmut
> >
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