DBERROR with Cyrus 2.2.12

Harms Consulting IT support desk support at harmsconsulting.com
Wed Jul 8 20:34:43 EDT 2009


Toomas Aas wrote:
> Christophe Boyanique wrote:
>
>   
>> But I still get repeating error messages like this:
>>
>> Jul  7 14:58:51 mail7702 lmtpunix[8988]: DBERROR db4: 9 lockers
>> Jul  7 15:04:24 mail7702 lmtpunix[9249]: DBERROR db4: 11 lockers
>>
>> Should I be worried by these messages ?
>>     
>
> I am not the greatest Cyrus or Berkeley expert out there, but from long 
> time lurking on this list I remember that these messages can be ignored. I 
> have done so for years, and nothing bad seems to have happened.
>
> --
> Toomas
>
> ... I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
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>   
I'm also not an expert but I had these messages early on with my setup
and the resolution was to switch from Berkeley DB to the native skiplist
format. This was covered a couple of weeks ago on this list. Search the
list archives for subject: Db4 problems.

I highly recommend reading this page from the Cyrus wiki:

http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WhatDatabaseBackend



Good luck,

Josh



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