annotations.db corruption

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:33:11PM -0300, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote:
> We already saw this 'dying process corrupting skiplist db' a lot, you 
> reproduce it with a really big db (>5-7M mailboxes) with little memory 
> (<= 1GB) in a linux box easily, some mmap operations will fail ENOMEM 
> and the process will give up with a resulting broken db.
> 
> NOTE: mmap will fail with ENOMEM in linux with free memory and lots of 
> swap free.

Are you in a position to try our experimental patch for this problem?
See patch.2 attached to https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue840

> We already saw another type of problem with SMP (2 x Xeon with HT, 4 
> 'processors' for linux) (Cyrus 2.2.10), resulted in corruption too (and 
> all problems with sincronization between frontends, mupdate and 
> backends). We "solved" it running a UP kernel on that same box, mupdate 
> doesnt need all that cpu power. IE: There is a race there.

Running an SMP linux raised the chances to get a corruption, too.
Is there a chance that this is the same bug, 
e.g. a memory locking failure?

	Bernhard
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