Vanishing quota information

Simon Matter simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com
Wed Jun 30 08:40:40 EDT 2004


> Simon Matter wrote:
>
>>>Simon Matter wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Do you still have the user folder with their emails?
>>>>>
>>>>>I have seen this as well on 2.1.15, although not as frequently as your
>>>>>seeing.  We have about 800 users and every so often a client does not
>>>>>have
>>>>>any quota information when they view the account in our Client
>>>>>Interface.
>>>>>When we check further their email directory is just gone.  We just
>>>>> wrote
>>>>>it
>>>>>off as user error because there was not rhyme or reason for it
>>>>> happening
>>>>>(that we could see).
>>>>>
>>>>>Is that similar to what you are seeing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No, everything else is normal. And AFAIK we didn't have this problem
>>>>until
>>>>recent 2.2.x versions.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, you're the only one to report this (yet) and I can't
>>>reproduce this, so you'll have to try to narrow down what is going on
>>>when this happens.
>>>
>>>Is it always the same mailboxes, or completely random?
>>
>>
>> Seems completely random. I just changed it to dump core but none have
>> shown up until now.
>> BTW, could if have something to do with runnung quota -f against the
>> runnung server?
>
> It shouldn't.  If it does, then something is broken.

Unfortunately something is really broken and it reminds me the bug in
2.2.4 in hash.c. There was also a fildescriptor leak which should be fixed
in 2.2.6, which is what I'm running.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find what's going on but I know that quota
-f still doesn't work as expected. I tried to run it today with the
following result:

Have a look at user.442vk which is a used mailbox with a freshly created
quota.

[root at imap01 root]# su - cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota -f"
user.442vk: quota root user.442vk --> (none)
user.442vk.Drafts: quota root user.442vk --> (none)
user.442vk.Sent: quota root user.442vk --> (none)
user.442vk.Trash: quota root user.442vk --> (none)
user.freybmic: usage was 62407657, now 62410867
user.graensam: usage was 423950920, now 423955183
user.guethher: usage was 391475709, now 391477185
user.hellerog: usage was 71319450, now 71325146
user.hohmpet: usage was 489757782, now 489801516
user.hugenjoe: usage was 158136268, now 158140557
user.hummeman: usage was 368907340, now 368919134
user.johomar: usage was 39755627, now 39757080
user.kriegtho: usage was 474422484, now 474466229
user.liebiute: usage was 2837508, now 2842548
user.lopezmar: usage was 31271607, now 31291165
user.maretala: usage was 6685492, now 6687794
user.meyermau: usage was 284419148, now 284422339
user.ottilwer: usage was 236995916, now 237014000
user.442vk: removed
user.raffafab: usage was 101802957, now 101969240
user.rotolsyl: usage was 72383042, now 72392335
user.rubinser: usage was 12245471, now 12251694

:::::::

user.gianeang: usage was 224158041, now 448316082
user.gibbosim: usage was 93957125, now 187914250
user.gigerkur: usage was 19138930, now 38277860
user.gillearn: usage was 6575736, now 13151472
quota: System I/O error Too many open files

The last lines are also interesting, because it seems that many quota are
wrong. Unfortunately it seems that usually quota -f doesn't finish. It
sometimes leaves lot's of *.NEW files around, the next run will remove
them again.
An strace of quota shows that there is no user.442vk.NEW file created and
later removed but instead, the user.442vk file is removed:

q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim", O_RDWR) = 3
q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW", O_RDWR) = 3
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/m/user/mattesim/Trash/cyrus.header", O_RDWR) = 612
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/m/user/mattesim/Trash/cyrus.index", O_RDWR) = 613
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/m/user/mattesim/Trash/cyrus.cache", O_RDWR) = 614
q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim", O_RDWR) = 612
q2:stat64("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600,
st_size=19, ...}) = 0
q2:unlink("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW") = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,
0666) = 613
q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW", O_RDWR) = 614
q2:stat64("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=19, ...}) = 0
q2:unlink("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW") = 0
q2:rename("/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim.NEW",
"/var/lib/imap/quota/m/user.mattesim") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)

q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/q/user.442vk", O_RDWR) = 3
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/q/user/442vk/cyrus.header", O_RDWR) = 4
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/q/user/442vk/Drafts/cyrus.header", O_RDWR) = 4
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/q/user/442vk/Sent/cyrus.header", O_RDWR) = 4
q2:open("/var/spool/imap/q/user/442vk/Trash/cyrus.header", O_RDWR) = 4
q2:open("/var/lib/imap/quota/q/user.442vk", O_RDWR) = 736
q2:stat64("/var/lib/imap/quota/q/user.442vk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600,
st_size=15, ...}) = 0
q2:unlink("/var/lib/imap/quota/q/user.442vk") = 0

Any ideas?

Simon


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