DBERROR db3: lockers

[Aidan Evans]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 at 12:59 Lawrence Greenfield wrote to info-cyrus at lists....

>   Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:35:30 -0400
>   From: Scott Russell <lnxgeek at us.ibm.com>
>[...]
>   While testing Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.9 I noticed these errors in my logs:
>
>     Sep 11 17:23:55 ogg lmtpd[773]: DBERROR db3: 16 lockers
...
>Berkeley db 4.0 has a bug where the number of lockers isn't
>decremented properly, causing this number to be unreliable.
>
>Larry

  Aha.  This explains why I'm seeing messages like "DBERROR db4: 11641
lockers".  I assume the unreliability of the locker count does not translate
into anything more than scary numbers.

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