Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-09 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
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

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-09 Thread Michael Menge
Quoting Bernd Petrovitsch : On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 16:56 +0200, Michael Menge wrote: [...] Quoting Bernd Petrovitsch : [...] > We are running cyrus-imapd with all files (mailboxes, Berkeley-DB, > mmap()ed files) on an ext3 filesystem (with data=ordered) on a iSCSI > block device (and the actua

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:51 +1000, "Rob Mueller" wrote: > > 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 s

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Rob Mueller
> - 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 known bugs. You chould defini

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 16:56 +0200, Michael Menge wrote: [...] > Quoting Bernd Petrovitsch : [...] > > We are running cyrus-imapd with all files (mailboxes, Berkeley-DB, > > mmap()ed files) on an ext3 filesystem (with data=ordered) on a iSCSI > > block device (and the actual storage is on a NetApp b

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Bernd Petrovitsch : Hi all! We are running cyrus-imapd with all files (mailboxes, Berkeley-DB, mmap()ed files) on an ext3 filesystem (with data=ordered) on a iSCSI block device (and the actual storage is on a NetApp box if that matters) on a Xeon 3.2GHz CPU (with 4 cores/2 HT threa

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Simon Matter
> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 16:26 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > [ problems with delivery.db] >> > Any hints or questions or feedback or ... is greatly appreciated, > [...] >> As a first step I suggest to get rid of the Berkeley-DB files and >> convert >> them to skiplist. > > I knew I forgot something i

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 16:26 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: [ problems with delivery.db] > > Any hints or questions or feedback or ... is greatly appreciated, [...] > As a first step I suggest to get rid of the Berkeley-DB files and convert > them to skiplist. I knew I forgot something in the last mail

Re: Cyrus-Imapd on Linux-iSCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Simon Matter
> Hi all! > > We are running cyrus-imapd with all files (mailboxes, Berkeley-DB, > mmap()ed files) on an ext3 filesystem (with data=ordered) on a iSCSI > block device (and the actual storage is on a NetApp box if that matters) > on a Xeon 3.2GHz CPU (with 4 cores/2 HT thread - ). > The kernel is 2.