ctl_cyrusdb looping

[Jure Pecar]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:54:06 -0400 (EDT)
Rob Siemborski <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:


> Most likely it was processing your duplicate delivery database, which
> can be quite large and take some time to process (you can generally tell
> what is going on by truss/strace on the process).
> 
> Options you have are to just delete it or to wait.  Killing the process
> in the middle of recovery is probably not ideal.
> 
> If you're using Berkeley DB for your duplicate delivery database, you
> many want to look at increasing your checkpoint frequency.  This could
> help reduce the amount of log that needs to be played back during
> recovery.
> 
> -Rob

I'm seeing the same on my 2.2.0a here ... deliverdb is now at 826mb, i
have checkpoint event set with period=10 and i find one or two ctl_deliver
processes running, eating all the cputime available. strace shows it's
chewing the db files as it should ... Maybe i should experiment with -E 2
or even 1 ... 

What are the consequences of removing deliver.db? As i understand, nothing
critical.

Killing ctl_deliver usualy results in a lmtp hang and cyrus restart is
needed to recover.

I think it would be smart for ctl_deliver to check if some other
ctl_deliver process is already running ... 

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Jure Pecar