ctl_cyrusdb -r takes too long

[John Havard]

You wouldn't happen to have have /var/imap on a logging or journaling 
filesystem by any chance?  A while back I noticed this under Solaris.  The 
fix was to mount /var without UFS logging. IIRC, the db code does its own 
journaling/logging, so the only thing you'll be missing by turning it off 
in the FS is the long start times.

Regards,
John Havard
Systems Administrator
Internet Doorway, Inc.

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--On Saturday, December 14, 2002 05:50:33 PM +0530 Jatin Nansi 
<jatin.nansi at timesgroup.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is for cyrus gurus and for record:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Dec 13 20:10:21 mail3 master[4574]: process started
> Dec 13 20:10:21 mail3 master[4575]: about to exec
> /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb Dec 13 20:10:21 mail3 ctl_cyrusdb[4575]:
> recovering cyrus databases Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 ctl_cyrusdb[4575]: done
> recovering cyrus databases Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4574]: ready for
> work
> Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4979]: about to exec
> /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4982]: about to
> exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4983]: about to
> exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4984]: about to
> exec /usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4985]: about to
> exec /usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4981]: about to
> exec /usr/cyrus/bin/tls_prune Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 master[4980]: about
> to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_deliver Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3
> ctl_cyrusdb[4979]: checkpointing cyrus databases Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3
> lmtpunix[4985]: executed
> Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 lmtp[4984]: executed
> Dec 14 06:15:11 mail3 tls_prune[4981]: mydelete: starting txn 2147483653
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Will ctl_cyrusdb -r take 10 hours ? I dread the day when the system will
> need downtime again.
>
> This is on a decent 2 x P3 1 GHz with 100 GB scsi raid and 1 GB RAM,
> about 2000 users, 50 MB per user.
>
> I really need reboot times to be between 5 to 10 minutes, as against 10
> hours. I will set the checkpoint period to 5 minutes as per the FAQ, but
> are there any other pointers ?
>
> Jatin
>
>
>
>
> Jatin Nansi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a cyrus IMAP system here which is taking way too long to start
>> up, stopping just at ctl_cyrusdb -r. There does not seem to be any
>> activity going on, but ctl_cyrusdb just doesnot exit.
>>
>> I am running cyrus-imapd-2.1.8 on a redhat 7.3 system. The backend
>> database is DB3.
>>
>> I need some directions on what could be wrong and where ? Is it normal
>> for ctl_cyrusdb -r to take as much as 1 hr (and still running) to
>> finish ?
>>
>> Jatin
>>
>
>