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[Alain Spineux]

On Nov 27, 2007 6:22 PM, Gerard <gerard.cluster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 11:53 AM, Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Daily ?
> Yes, over the last 7 days it didn't happen on one day, Thanksgiving. I
> would probably attribute that to very low load.
>
> On a regular basis ?
> Yes. I generally notice it between 6-9AM.

And something special in cron at this time ? Or some unusual usage ?

>
> At backup time ?
> We are not running backups on this host.
>
> Disk nearly full ?
> We have plenty of space left on all partitions.
>
> Some DBERROR in the logs somewhere ?
> There were, but not anymore. In troubleshooting the issues we
> converted deliver.db to skiplist rather then BDB which eliminated the
> errors. They looked like this.
>
> Nov 26 19:24:49 imap06 lmtpunix[28264]: DBERROR db4: 15 lockers
>
> service imapd restart is enough ?
> Nope, the box has to be cold booted. Hitting the physical reset button.

Can you login on the console when this is happening ?
Did you try to strace some CPU consuming process ?
How do you know this is related to cyrus imap ?


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