Cyrus Server Migration

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Tarjei Huse wrote:

> >I tried to extract some of the patches from different places and put
> >them into my RPMs. Unfortunately I'm not sure I didn't miss one.
>
> Would it be possible to get the patches into the source soon? I would be
> very happy to maybe have a commandline sw --with-linux or something for
> the patches.

I'm currently looking that the master-loses-track-of-processes patch again
(which while it isn't linux specific, will fix problems on non-linux
systems).  This is bug 1261.  This hasn't made it in yet mostly because
its a complicated issue and even the "working" versions have problems.

The Linux retry-the-file-locking-patch is a *serious* performance lose,
and indicates a bug is present in the linux kernel (since procesess will
go to sleep and never wake up).  I don't think we'll be applying this one
(Bug 1177, or http://servercc.oakton.edu/~jwade/cyrus/readme.html)

-Rob

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