Problems with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.5 on Solaris 9 on production server

Wed Jun 2 08:52:18 EDT 2004

Igor Brezac wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Shawn Sivy wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I'm having all kinds of problems with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.5 on Solaris 9.
>>System I/O errors, imap processing dying, IOERRORs.
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions on what could be the cause?  Has anyone
>>gotten version 2.2.5 working on Solaris (SPARC) 9?
>>
>>  -Shawn
>>
>>May 30 17:52:57 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] IOERROR:
>>opening quota file /var/imap/quota/m/user.macey2: Too many open files
>>May 30 17:52:57 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
>>error fetching user.macey2: cyrusdb error
>>May 30 17:52:57 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug]
>>verify_user(user.macey2) failed: System I/O error
>>May 30 17:53:20 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] IOERROR:
>>opening quota file /var/imap/quota/s/user.sdhugg: Too many open files
>>May 30 17:53:20 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
>>error fetching user.sdhugg: cyrusdb error
>>May 30 17:53:20 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug]
>>verify_user(user.sdhugg) failed: System I/O error
>>May 30 17:53:40 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] IOERROR:
>>opening quota file /var/imap/quota/s/user.samuel2: Too many open files
>>May 30 17:53:40 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
>>error fetching user.samuel2: cyrusdb error
>>May 30 17:53:40 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug]
>>verify_user(user.samuel2) failed: System I/O error
>>May 30 17:54:05 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] IOERROR:
>>opening quota file /var/imap/quota/b/user.balaisi2: Too many open files
>>May 30 17:54:05 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
>>error fetching user.balaisi2: cyrusdb error
>>May 30 17:54:05 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug]
>>verify_user(user.balaisi2) failed: System I/O error
>>
>>Jun  1 08:42:19 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>21886 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:43:26 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>20660 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:43:43 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>20133 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:47:02 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>23236 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:47:20 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>23972 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:47:58 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>23751 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:48:05 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>21258 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:49:53 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>19939 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:51:27 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>24807 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>Jun  1 08:51:37 cyrus master[21185]: [ID 970914 local6.error] process
>>23457 exited, signaled to death by 11
>>
>>    
>>
>
>This looks like a berkeley db problem, although it could be a file
>descriptor leak somewhere. Have you applied sleepycat 4.2.52 patches
>(there are two of them, although the first is more important)?  Does
>checkpointing of the cyrus databases complete successfully (look for
>ctl_cyrusdb in the syslog)  I start master from 'configdirectory',
>otherwise berkeley checkpointing does not work (neither does duplicate
>db expiration)
>
>  
>
I have both patches installed for db 4.2.52.  Below are the messages 
from the log regarding ctl_cyrusdb.  Looks like it completed fine.  I 
took your suggestion of starting master from /var/imap. 

Jun  2 08:47:05 cyrus master[17927]: [ID 392559 local6.debug] about to 
exec /local/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
Jun  2 08:47:06 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17927]: [ID 702911 local6.notice] 
recovering cyrus databases
Jun  2 08:47:09 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17927]: [ID 275131 local6.notice] 
skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db (85526 records, 6516904 
bytes) in 3 seconds
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17927]: [ID 127214 local6.notice] done 
recovering cyrus databases
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus master[17935]: [ID 392559 local6.debug] about to 
exec /local/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17935]: [ID 702911 local6.notice] 
checkpointing cyrus databases
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17935]: [ID 578205 local6.debug] 
archiving database file: /var/imap/mailboxes.db
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17935]: [ID 448116 local6.debug] 
archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000008
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17935]: [ID 578205 local6.debug] 
archiving database file: /var/imap/annotations.db
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17935]: [ID 448116 local6.debug] 
archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000008
Jun  2 08:47:13 cyrus ctl_cyrusdb[17935]: [ID 127214 local6.notice] done 
checkpointing cyrus databases

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