Issues with user.sub files - subscription files hangs system.

[Adam D]

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:15:20AM -0700, Adam D wrote:
>   
>> I had thought maybe any of the mail boxes were corrupted so we created a
>> raw Debian stable system (just with the same imap.conf) on a xen server
>> with just enough to run cyrus for testing and we still ran into the same
>> issues.  Maybe could it be related to any of the settings?  The
>> production server was running DTC control panel and on the testing
>> system the DTC settings were removed (mysql).
>>     
>
> Try a 32 bit kernel if you can't upgrade the kernel to a new version.
> It's a kernel bug, I'm pretty sure.
>
> I can make you a skiplist from those files easily enough, but if you're
> running a buggy kernel it won't help you any (besides, skiplist in 2.2
> is buggy as all whatsit... and I can tell you the code in cyrusdb_flat.c
> stinks too.  Whoever wrote this stuff must have done it before any of
> the concepts like factoring identical code out into functions had been
> invented!)
>
> Bron.
>
>   
Bron,

Thank you...... Thank you....  It does make a lot of sense esp since It
was not a specific Ubuntu vs. Debian issue. settings.  Late tonight we
will make a test with the latest kernel and let you know.  This helped
tremendously. 

-Adam