You wouldn't happen to have have /var/imap on a logging or journaling filesystem by any chance? A while back I noticed this under Solaris. The fix was to mount /var without UFS logging. IIRC, the db code does its own journaling/logging, so the only thing you'll be missing by turning it off in the FS is the long start times.
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--On Saturday, December 14, 2002 05:50:33 PM +0530 Jatin Nansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, This is for cyrus gurus and for record:------------------------------------------------------- Dec 13 20:10:21 mail3 master[4574]: process started Dec 13 20:10:21 mail3 master[4575]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb Dec 13 20:10:21 mail3 ctl_cyrusdb[4575]: recovering cyrus databases Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 ctl_cyrusdb[4575]: done recovering cyrus databases Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4574]: ready for work Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4979]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4982]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4983]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4984]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4985]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4981]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/tls_prune Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4980]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_deliver Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 ctl_cyrusdb[4979]: checkpointing cyrus databases Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 lmtpunix[4985]: executed Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 lmtp[4984]: executed Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 tls_prune[4981]: mydelete: starting txn 2147483653 ------------------------------------------------------- Will ctl_cyrusdb -r take 10 hours ? I dread the day when the system will need downtime again. This is on a decent 2 x P3 1 GHz with 100 GB scsi raid and 1 GB RAM, about 2000 users, 50 MB per user. I really need reboot times to be between 5 to 10 minutes, as against 10 hours. I will set the checkpoint period to 5 minutes as per the FAQ, but are there any other pointers ? Jatin Jatin Nansi wrote:Hi, I have a cyrus IMAP system here which is taking way too long to start up, stopping just at ctl_cyrusdb -r. There does not seem to be any activity going on, but ctl_cyrusdb just doesnot exit. I am running cyrus-imapd-2.1.8 on a redhat 7.3 system. The backend database is DB3. I need some directions on what could be wrong and where ? Is it normal for ctl_cyrusdb -r to take as much as 1 hr (and still running) to finish ? Jatin
