/opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space

[Jim Howell]

Hi,
         I was thinking the second method would work however I like the 
first one as well.  Thanks.
Jim

At 02:29 PM 3/28/2003 -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote:
>Either use the cvt_cyrusdb program or dump and undump (with a
>newly-compiled version of cyrus) your mailbox list (using ctl_mboxlist)
>
>-Rob
>
>On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jim Howell wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >          No I guess I hadn't heard that suggestion before.  Thanks..   Is
> > there an easy way to go from BerkeleyDB to skiplist?
> > Jim
> >
> > At 11:26 AM 3/28/2003 -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > >If you haven't had the suggestion before, it's really not recommended to
> > >use Berkeley DB for your mailbox list.  Use skiplist instead.
> > >
> > >-Rob
> > >
> > >On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jim Howell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >       Last night we had this happen again on one of our systems.  What
> > > is the
> > > > current thinking as to the cause and/or fix to this problem?  I saw one
> > > > response last time that said backing off to DB 4.0 would 
> help.  Again the
> > > > versions of things are:
> > > >
> > > > Sendmail 8.12.8
> > > > Cyrus 2.1.11
> > > > Berkeley DB 4.1.24
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >       I have an interesting problem.  Over the weekend our syslog
> > > forwarder went
> > > > beserk generating over 300,000 messages to about 6 people.  This 
> morning
> > > > our three new Cyrus systems went belly up, (yes that is a technical 
> term),
> > > > actually the master daemon seemed to eventually freeze up.  The 
> only real
> > > > error msgs I can find are these:
> > > > Mar 10 00:18:16 postoffice8 lmtpd[27393]: [ID 729713 local6.error] 
> DBERROR:
> > > > opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> > > > Mar 10 08:04:46 postoffice8 pop3d[2183]: [ID 729713 local6.error] 
> DBERROR:
> > > > opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> > > > Mar 10 08:12:58 postoffice8 imapd[2489]: [ID 729713 local6.error] 
> DBERROR:
> > > > opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> > > > Mar 10 08:14:05 postoffice8 imapd[2731]: [ID 729713 local6.error] 
> DBERROR:
> > > > opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> > > > Mar 10 08:27:59 postoffice8 imapd[3951]: [ID 729713 local6.error] 
> DBERROR:
> > > > opening /opt/cyrus/mailboxes.db: Not enough space
> > > >
> > > > Now I'm been running older versions of Cyrus (1.5.19) for years at 
> 300,000
> > > > messages a day with no trouble.  I don't believe space is really an 
> issue,
> > > > here is a df -k from one of the systems.
> > > >
> > > > Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> > > > /dev/md/dsk/d0       1984564  904568 1020460    47%    /
> > > > /proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
> > > > fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
> > > > mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
> > > > /dev/md/dsk/d1        962573  255248  649571    29%    /var
> > > > swap                 28642528      32 28642496     1%    /var/run
> > > > swap                 28655440   12944 28642496     1%    /tmp
> > > > /dev/md/dsk/d4       5040814    8134 4982272     1%    /users
> > > > /dev/md/dsk/d3       5040814  452439 4537967    10%    /opt
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/logvol01
> > > >                       5160542  115891 4993046     3%    /logs
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/mqueuevol01
> > > >                       10321884    4986 10213680     1%    /mqueue
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/cyrus_data_vol01
> > > >                       41287586  126222 40748489     1%    /opt/cyrus
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/sendmailvol01
> > > >                       41287586  603402 
> 40271309     2%    /opt/sendmail_vol
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/cyrus_app_vol01
> > > >                       41287586  147526 
> 40727185     1%    /opt/cyrus_vol
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/spoolvol01
> > > >                       103218991  679107 
> 101507695     1%    /var/spool/mail
> > > > swap                 28642640     144 
> 28642496     1%    /opt/cyrus/proc
> > > > /dev/vx/dsk/po8_dg01/appvol01
> > > >                       20643785   54397 20382951     1%    /applications
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This is all with Cyrus 2.1.11 on a V880 with 32GB of memory with 
> Solaris 8
> > > > and, Sendmail 8.12.8.  Anyone seen this before?  Thanks.
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
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