constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

[Paul Raines]

Okay, thanks.  I will try this next time I can take things down

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote:

>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>
>>> You may want to switch berkeley dbs to skiplist to try how it goes.
>>> By default only duplicate_db and tlscache_db are berkeley so you may try
>>> this in /etc/imapd.conf:
>>> duplicate_db: skiplist
>>> tlscache_db: skiplist
>>
>> Will this change what is used for the /var/lib/imap/db/log.* files?
>> Or I am missing something in the dependency of things here?
>
> The /var/lib/imap/db/log.* files are some kind of transaction log files of
> Berkeley DB. What happens in your case is that the Berkeley DBs generate
> errors for whatever reason. Then you stop the server and recover the dbs.
> To fix the db files you also have to replay the logs and then remove those
> files. The Berkeley DB docs describe this in detail.
> The good news with above configuration is that you get rid of Berkeley DB
> at all and thus there are no /var/lib/imap/db/log.* files anymore.
> Skiplist works quite different but you shouldn't notice anything, except
> that no Berkeley DB errors will show up anymore.
>
> Simon
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