RE: forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-02 Thread Nick Ustinov
-Original Message- From: Helmut Apfelholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 19:37 To: Nick Ustinov; info-cyrus Subject: RE: forking problem and SleepyCat Could you please try turning off the DeliveryMode=q in sendmail for some time, so we could see if the diff has

RE: forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-02 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
sendmail. > > > > Nick Ustinov > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.videinfra.com > > > -Original Message- > From: Spark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:01 PM > To: info-cyrus > Subject: Re: forking problem and Sle

Re: forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-02 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
Hi, we will try to apply the patch to our server in one - two days time. This will provide some reall life testing. Hopefully that will show something. H. --- Spark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We spent most of the day trying to simulate the load > on the server and > trying to do so

RE: forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-02 Thread Nick Ustinov
manage all processes. However, I still have DeliveryMode=q in my sendmail. Nick Ustinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.videinfra.com -Original Message- From: Spark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:01 PM To: info-cyrus Subject: Re: forking problem and SleepyCat

Re: forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-02 Thread Spark
Hello, We spent most of the day trying to simulate the load on the server and trying to do some measurements. It's quite hard to get conclusive evidence to prove its faster or not. But most tests do show an increase in speed, on average about a 15% increase. When the server is heavily loaded

Re: forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-01 Thread Walter Wong
Spark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe somebody can comeup with change to the code that can implement this?? ok, the change is in cvs. I also included a diff below. Please let us know if this makes things any better (or worse). Walter

forking problem and SleepyCat

2001-05-01 Thread Spark
Hey guys, Regarding the forking problem that some of us seem to be having. I've been in touch with the SleepyCat support department. We discussed a few things about the problem and finally i sent him a copy of the cyrusdb_db3.c file.. At first the response was that maybe opening it read/

RE: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread NiekR
, same result. what was cyrus ver that worked >fine for you? i tried 2.0.9 - it was just like 2.0.12. > >nick > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 19:55 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
This is a redhat 6.2 now I think. Helmut > nick > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 19:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: forking problem cd.. > > &

RE: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Nick Ustinov
il 25, 2001 23:27 To: Nick Ustinov; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: forking problem cd.. Nick, we did not have the problem on Cyrus 1.5.14 (not using LMTP) on a Linux 2.2 kernel (Linux RedHat 6.0) Regards Niek Rijnbout At 21:46 25-04-2001 +0300, Nick Ustinov wrote: >well, it seems that this

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello fellow listmembers, > > We switched to a new version of the cyrus imapd > (version 2.0.12) and i think we have encounted the > 'locking problem' that is being discussed here. > > What we are seeing here is that it takes a long > while for the greetings to sh

RE: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Nick Ustinov
: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 19:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: forking problem cd.. Hello fellow listmembers, We switched to a new version of the cyrus imapd (version 2.0.12) and i think we have encounted the 'locking problem' that is being discussed here. What we

forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread rijnbout
Hello fellow listmembers, We switched to a new version of the cyrus imapd (version 2.0.12) and i think we have encounted the 'locking problem' that is being discussed here. What we are seeing here is that it takes a long while for the greetings to show even after the connection has been establ

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
lgorithm remains the same. I also haven't seen any patch in the archives. What is even worse, our server has shown the same 'forking problem' today, this time with singleinstancestore: no. However it only happened once and yesterday it was sev

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread mills
Helmut Apfelholz writes: > >I've just checked the CVS, duplicate.c hasn't been >changed at all, so the algorithm remains the same. I >also haven't seen any patch in the archives. The patch was submitted to the Cyrus bug reporting address some time ago. All it does, though, is to provide an eve

RE: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Nick Ustinov
oader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:00 PM To: Helmut Apfelholz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: forking problem cd.. > After some more testing we think that the main problem > is between lmtpd processes accessing the > /var/imap/deliv

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Loader
> After some more testing we think that the main problem > is between lmtpd processes accessing the > /var/imap/deliverdb databases. While reading a source > of imap/duplicate.c, there's a note next to > get_db_name > function saying that too many processes where > contending for the locks on del

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-25 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
> > 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. > > What is the advantage of tdb over BerkeleyDB? I

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-24 Thread Dori . Seliskar
Helmut Apfelholz wrote: > 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. What is the advantage of tdb over BerkeleyD

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-24 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
; 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 PROTECTE

Re: forking problem cd..

2001-04-24 Thread Dori Seliskar
felholz [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 t

RE: forking problem cd..

2001-04-24 Thread Nick Ustinov
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

forking problem cd..

2001-04-24 Thread Helmut Apfelholz
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

RE: forking problem

2001-04-20 Thread Nick Ustinov
lly help. Nick Ustinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.videinfra.com -Original Message- From: Krzysztof Sierota [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:44 PM To: Dori Seliskar; Nick Ustinov Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: forking problem I'd like to

Re: forking problem

2001-04-12 Thread Dori Seliskar
Nick Ustinov wrote: > Hi! > > I use cyrus 2.0.12 + pam_mysql, sendmail 8.11.0 on a dual p3/550 with 1G ram > (linux redhat7, kernel 2.4.2). > I've faced a very strange problem -- when the system is under heavy load > (however, there is ~300Mb of free memory and free ~50% cpu) master process > is

forking problem

2001-04-12 Thread Nick Ustinov
Hi! I use cyrus 2.0.12 + pam_mysql, sendmail 8.11.0 on a dual p3/550 with 1G ram (linux redhat7, kernel 2.4.2). I've faced a very strange problem -- when the system is under heavy load (however, there is ~300Mb of free memory and free ~50% cpu) master process is not forking new processes or doin