Imap timeout with 27k messages...

[David Lang]

the problem is reated to the speed of accessing evrything on the 
filesystem. there's no easy fix for this (other then possibly extending 
the timeouts)

to 'fix' this you could create a new folder and manually copy a bunch of 
the messages to that new folder then run reconstruct on both the old and 
new folders.

beyond that do some testing with huge message folders on different 
filesystems. you may find that other filesystems handle huge folders 
better then what you're useing.

David Lang

  On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Jared Watkins wrote:

> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:26:31 -0400
> From: Jared Watkins <jared at watkins.net>
> Reply-To: Jared Watkins <jared+dated+1126113536.10d27b at watkins.net>
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Imap timeout with 27k messages...
> 
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Jared
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