Quota / EVMS ? / broken ....

[Simon Matter]

> Hi all !
>
> We are running 'Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.10-Invoca-RPM-2.2.10-2' on one of
> our mailserver, and I've recently noticed that the user-quota's are
> more than often incorrent.

There were some versions of cyrus-imapd with issues in the quota code. I
suggest updating to the current 2.2.12 release, taking the server offline
(if you can) and running chk_cyrus and quota -f to make sure all is well.

Simon

>
> Running quota -f als user cyrus will fix this, but is this a known
> issue ?
> ---
> user.a^buis^kennisnet^nl: usage was 28821438, now 14410719
> user.a^c^m^vollebregt^wiringherlant^nl: usage was 2408276, now
> 1204138
> user.a^dehaan^wiringherlant^nl: usage was 14430893, now 7356279
> ---
> It's not like it missed one message or something ? Ohw cool, looking
> at it some futher ..... it is most of the time of by a factor 2 ;)
> Hmmm, looking further:
> ---
> "user.lia^bs-st-joseph^schermerhorn: usage was 10604869, now
> 5950905"
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota user/lia^bs-st-joseph^schermerhorn
>    Quota  % Used    Used Root
>   100000      11   11622 user/lia.bs-st-joseph.schermerhorn
> ---
>
> We have had users with a 'over quota' error during mail delivery
> whom had 0 messages in their mailbox. After a quota -f [user] it was
> fixed, that raised the issue ....
>
> The cyrus-spool's are on a scsi-raid setup, but with an evms ext3
> filesystem (for snapshotting).
>
> Any hints or tips ?
>
> bye,
> Chris
>
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