Re: Locking problem in Cyrus 2.0.16

From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 02:29:49 EDT


--On 4. september 2001 17:25 -0400 Lawrence Greenfield
<leg+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> I presume that the 9th already holds the lock on .../cyrus.header?

I haven't debugged locking that much - is there a way to dump who holds
locks on whats?
>
> It would be helpful to get backtraces of all the relevant imapds,
> though probably the 8 are mostly identical.

you mean with gdb, "attach" and stackdump?
can try.

>
> Larry
>
> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:23:46 +0200
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <>
>
> Now how do I debug this?
>
> I have a single-user Cyrus IMAP server, accessed via Mulberry 2.1.
>
> I have 9 running imapd processes.
>
> 8 of them are waiting to get a lock on the file
> /home/imapd/users/user/hta/Linux/Counter/cyrus.header.
>
> The 9th is waiting to get a lock on the file
> /var/imap/user/h/hta.seen - which the other 8 have open.
> Killing this process seems to resolve the conflict.
>
> How do I find out what the root of the problem is?
>
> Harald
>
>
>








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