Problems with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.5 on Solaris 9 on production server

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Shawn Sivy wrote:

> Against my better judgement, I upgrade the hardware Sun 280R to Sun 440,
>
> the OS from Solaris 8 to 9 and Cyrus IMAP 2.0.16, SASL 1.5.24 & Postfix
> 1.1.13 to IMAP 2.2.5, SASL 2.1.18 & Postfix 2.1.1.
>
> I haven't created any new users on the new version yet.  I did try going
> from quotalegacy to skiplist for quota_db, but I couldn't add create any
> quota for users.  In cyradm the "lq" command would work until I set the
> quota on the first user, then both lq and sq would hang.  The initial sq
> was reaaal slooow too (compares to create a quota with quotalegacy).
>
> I can try "downgrading" to Imap 2.2.3.  Nothing has changed as far as
> the structures (cyrus.* files, etc.), so I should just be able to
> compile and install that version right?
>

I just tried using skiplist and berkeley for quota and things worked fine
for me.  I run Solaris 9 and I have not run into a such problem.  I use
gcc 9.25.3 to compile stuff, although you should be able to use a newer
gcc compiler.

-Igor

>
> Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> > Shawn Sivy wrote:
> >
> >> I want to say that it takes a little while since I tried a couple
> >> things that seemed to work, but the errors creep back in after a
> >> bit.  I recompiled with gcc instead of Sun's cc, which I thought
> >> fixed the problem, but it didn't.
> >> Off hand, could you tell whether the memory leak would most likely be
> >> in the cyrus code or in the underlying libraries.  I'll start looking
> >> for Solaris patches.  Suggestion what library/subsystem I should be
> >> targeting?
> >
> >
> > My guess would be its a problem in the Cyrus code, specifically the
> > rewritten quota code.  Do you have code that is creating a lot of
> > users and setting a new quota on them?  I just fixed a bug
> > specifically for this problem.
> >
> >> Thanks for the reply, I've been pulling spending many hours ignoring
> >> my family trying to the this thing stable.  I may try to go back to
> >> Solaris 8 if I can't get it working by the end of the week.
> >
> >
> > Did this problem start with 2.2.5 or with Solaris 9, or did you
> > upgrade both at the same time?  Does 2.2.3 work on Solaris 9?
> >
> >
> >>
> >>  -Shawn
> >>
> >> Ken Murchison wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Looks like a file descriptor leak, but I haven't seen this myself.
> >>> Does this happen immediately when you start up the master process,
> >>> or does it take a while?
> >>>
> >>
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