The Cyrus db (/var/imap/db) is suddenly hundreds of MB!

[Igor Brezac]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Paul Boven wrote:

> Hi Igor, everyone,
>
> Igor Brezac wrote:
>>> Trying to run 'ctl_cyrusdb -r' takes a few minutes but aborts with a
>>> coredump. When I try to start Cyrus, it tries to recover the database
>>> (but coredumps), then starts copying all these 10MB logfiles into
>>> db.backup and we run out of diskspace again.
>
>> change directory to /var/imap before you run ctl_cyrusdb -r:
>> 
>> cd /var/imap
>> ctl_cyrusdb -r
>> 
>> Do that work?
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> But no, that doesn't make a difference, I did it from /var/imap the first 
> time I tried, too.

I wonder if your db env is corrupt.  stop cyrus server and
cd /var/imap
db_recover
ctl_cyrusdb -r

If that does not work and if you use skiplist for the mailboxes db, you 
can remove the contents of /var/imap/db and all berkeley dbs (deliver, 
annotate, etc) and restart cyrus-imap.

-- 
Igor