Random deadlocks with cyrus-imapd-2.1.14

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

--On 21. September 2005 17:58:58 -0500 Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> 
wrote:

> We are running cyrus-imapd-2.1.14, using db-3.1.17 for the
> deliver.db and tls_sessions.db.  Lately, we've been getting
> deadlocks that stall mail delivery.  When they happen, all of
> the lmtpd processes are blocked waiting to acquire a lock.
> If I try to run the db_stat utility, it also blocks.  These
> deadlocks happen quite randomly, sometimes months apart, but
> sometimes only days.  The server is a 4-CPU Sun 480 running
> Solaris 9.  I haven't seen reports of anyone else having this
> problem.

we used to have that or a similar problem, but the upgrade to 2.2.x solved 
it. This was under Red Hat, but IIRC the bug wasn't platform-dependent.

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
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