Is using Berkeley DB 4.0.14 recommended?

[Olivier Wegria]

I am using db3 and I have this problem too
Rh 7.3

db3-3.3.11-6 rpm
Cyrus 2.1.9 source
Postfix 1.1.11 source


Oct 15 09:20:06 nsa5 lmtpd[840]: DBERROR db3: 5 lockers

Regards

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Objet : Re: Is using Berkeley DB 4.0.14 recommended?


At 13:27 17.10.2002 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
>Mark Keasling schrieb:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to use Berkeley DB 4.0.14 and am getting the dreaded
>>   DBERROR db4: 4 lockers
>> messages even when only starting up the master process.  From what 
>> I've seen reported, the lockers number will only increase and cyrus 
>> will eventually start failing.
>> 
>> Is it recommended to:
>>   revert to a previous/different version of Berkeley DB?
>>   use database types other then db3 (ie skiplist, flat)
>> 
>> If a different version of the database should be used, what is the 
>> latest version, supported by Cyrus imap 2.1.9, which doesn't exhibit 
>> this problem (does anyone know)?
>
>It's an annoying problem nobody seems to know about, or care about, or 
>care how to fix it or know who is responsible to fix it.
>
>I'm also really intersted in this.

I wonder if this is only with Cyrus 2.1.x.
If have stress-tested Cyrus 2.0.16 with DB 4.0.14 with some 100.000
messages and never get this error. Anyone seen this with 2.0.x versions?

Regards


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