Imap timeout with 27k messages...

[Ken Murchison]

Jared Watkins wrote:
> Hello all..
> 
> I have a situation here where an 'exempt' user has accumulated nearly 
> 27k messages and 1.5G of mail in their sent items folder and now any 
> attempt to access this folder has imap timeout problems and stuck 
> processes.  The cyradm utility is also not able to work with the 
> folder... attempts to rename.. or reconstruct it results in a stuck 
> process.  This under RHEL3 with reiserfs and cyrus 2.2.3.. I've reviewed 
> the changelog and I don't see anything obviously related to this up to 
> 2.2.12.
> 
> Any ideas on what might be causing this... or what I can do to fix it... 
> short of deleting the folder?

Are you sure that reconstruct gets "stuck" or are you just not waiting 
long enough for it to finish?  Cyrus has no problem with mailboxes of 
this size.  The info-cyrus archive mailbox at CMU (which I read the list 
from) currently has 36K messages in it.

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