quotas not working a x86_64?

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Jul 5 09:49:28 EDT 2005


Paul Raines wrote:

> 
> I have started a new cyrus installation on a EM64T box running the 
> x86_64 version of CentOS4 which has cyrus-imapd 2.2.12 I have set a 
> default 2GB quota on all users.  However, I get over quota errors on one 
> user even when they are using only 1% of the 2GB.  Doing a 'lq' on the 
> user mailbox in cyradmin clearly says it is 1%.  The /var/lib/imap/quota 
> file for user seems okay (as I understand the top number is in bytes and 
> the bottom in kilobytes).
> 
> The message being copied into to the user's folder is only a few megabytes
> and I see nothing in it like a bogus content-size header.
> 
> I tried 'quota -f' but it did not help.  SO I ended up removing quotas 
> entirely to get things to work.
> 
> Since I am running on a 64-bit box, I am wondering if something with 
> quotas is not 64-bit clean, at least on Linux.

Its possible.  I'm fairly certain that the code has been tested 
successfully on 64-bit Solaris.  It seems odd that the quota file looks 
OK (which means that the code successfully handled writing the limit and 
usage), but fails a quota check.

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