I am not sure if you could easily tell when a process is hung. IMAP processes
at least can be remarkably persistant. For example, we have some users with
cable or DSL connections at home. If these folks leave an email client open
and it checks for mail with a period that is shorter than the i
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>I'd like to see watchdogs in cyrus, just like we have in postfix for
>example. That would protect us of all bugs like the hanging imap and pop3d
>from causing resource starvation, while we track down and fix whatever issue
>is causing the subsystem to hang..
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, John Wade wrote:
> Hi seen file lock suffers,
[...]
> to my patch to work around seen file locking issues in cyrus 2.0.16 and
> 2.1.3. For those who have already installed it, there are no changes in
[...]
The patch is interesting, and I would apply it just-in-case to the De
Hi seen file lock suffers,
I cleaned up the documentation, patchability, and added up some comments
to my patch to work around seen file locking issues in cyrus 2.0.16 and
2.1.3. For those who have already installed it, there are no changes in
functionality. (Thanks to Thomas Jarosch and others
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 15:24, John Wade wrote:
> Just for reference, what file system type are you using (ext2, ext3, etc.)
ext3 with the noatime,data=journal options
> Have you tried using gdb to backtrace what the processes are blocking
> on?
Yes, lmtpd was blocked in flock.
> Hope it works
Hi Hein,
Just for reference, what file system type are you using (ext2, ext3, etc.)
? Have you tried using gdb to backtrace what the processes are blocking
on?
Hope it works for you, I have not looked at the lock_flock.c file on 2.1.3,
but I doubt that it has changed.
Let me know what ha
Seems that I am also experiencing this or a similar locking problem, on
Cyrus 2.1.3, though, with Debian, Linux kernel 2.4.18.
I will try the workaround now, but still would very much welcome
comments on the problem.
-Hein
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 23:26, John Wade wrote:
> Hi Cyrus 2.0.16 users,
Hi Cyrus 2.0.16 users,
Just because I received a couple of questions about what this patch is
designed to resolve, I thought this info might also be of general use.
As I stated before, the patched lock_flock.c file can be downloaded from
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~jwade/cyrus/
This patch has on
