strange quota behaviour

[LALOT Dominique]

2009/9/1 Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>

> Quoting LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot at gmail.com>:
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> Sometimes, I have some bad quotas. Here is a trace:
>>
>> [cyrus at imap-perso ~]$ cyradm -user cyrus localhost
>> Password:
>> localhost.localdomain> lq user/xx
>>  STORAGE 197/1000000 (0.0197%)
>>
>> [root at imap-perso ~]# du -hs /var/spool/imap2/m/user/xx
>> 890M    /var/spool/imap2/m/user/xx
>>
>> reconstruct -rf user/xx
>>
>> [cyrus at imap-perso ~]$ quota -f user/xx
>> user.xx: usage was 201755, now 820057155
>>   Quota   % Used     Used Root
>>  1000000       80   800837 user/xx
>>
>>
> Do you use delayed expunge, squatter? The size of cyrus.* files and
> eMails in delayed expunge mode are not included in the quota but
> in du. Reconstructing the mailbox without -k will delete the eMails
> in delayed expunge mode.


No I have no expunge mode, my install is fairly basic..

Dom



>
>
>
>  (note that: its better but 800M and 890 makes a difference. That user has
>> lots of folders and subfloders)
>> my version:
>> cyrus-imapd-2.3.14
>>
>> It happens quite a lot. Too much for me.
>> I used some years ago to force a quota -f on each users. It worked on a
>> 2.2.12 version, but when we migrate to a 2.3.x version, suddenly, the
>> quotas
>> were broken with over 1000%.
>>
>> We went back to 2.2.12 and got rid of quota -f (too dangerous)
>>
>> But now, that problem is coming back again and I still don't understand
>> why.
>> Fixing a quota should be easy to do.
>> quota -f is very fast. Too fast I think..
>> Can I generalize a reconstruct -rf followed by a quota -f without fears?
>>
>> Do you experience such problems?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dom
>>
>> --
>> Dominique LALOT
>> Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux
>> http://annuaire.univmed.fr/showuser.php?uid=lalot
>>
>>
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Dominique LALOT
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