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

[Rob Siemborski]

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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