cyrus-murder problems with database corruption in the frontend/master

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Mar 31 17:55:42 EST 2005


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, João Assad wrote:
> >>My db just got corrupted again 2 hours ago. seems like moving 200k 
> >>mailboxes between backends really speed it up.

...

> cyrus/mupdate[12614]: IOERROR: mapping /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db file: 
> Cannot allocate memory
> cyrus/mupdate[12614]: failed to mmap /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db file
> cyrus/master[12580]: service mupdate pid 12614 in READY state: 
> terminated abnormally

Check ulimits.  If fixing the ulimit stuff stops the problems, we know that
the issue is caused by something that mmaps or mallocs and does not check
the result properly.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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