The Cyrus db (/var/imap/db) is suddenly hundreds of MB!

From: Paul Boven (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 11:37:16 EDT

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    Hi everyone,

    Due to a problem with a webserver on the same machine, the /var
    partition on our mailserver went from over 1GB available to full within
    a few minutes.

    The Cyrus database lives in /var/imap, and has become corrupt as a
    result of this. Initially, we tried to recover from this situation by
    stopping all services and moving the offending Apache logfiles away.

    But as soon as we made room on /var, Cyrus would use it all up in
    /var/imap/db which is now 863MB in size. What's inside:

    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 8192 Oct 6 17:14 __db.001
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 663552 Oct 6 17:14 __db.002
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 98304 Oct 6 17:13 __db.003
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 21061632 Oct 6 17:13 __db.004
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 32768 Oct 6 17:13 __db.005
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10485738 Oct 6 15:58 log.0000000357
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10485728 Oct 6 15:58 log.0000000358
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10485728 Oct 6 15:58 log.0000000359
    (85 of these logfiles in total)
    -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4 Sep 30 18:28 skipstamp

    Trying to run 'ctl_cyrusdb -r' takes a few minutes but aborts with a
    coredump. When I try to start Cyrus, it tries to recover the database
    (but coredumps), then starts copying all these 10MB logfiles into
    db.backup and we run out of diskspace again.

    Any hints on how to get this system back into working order would be
    very much appreciated!

    Regards, Paul Boven.

    Some background info:
    Solaris 9 USparc
    Cyrus-Imap 2.2.8
    Cyrus-Sasl2 2.1.19

    /etc/cyrus.conf:
    START { recover cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r" }

    SERVICES {
    imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0
    sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
    lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0

    }

    EVENTS {
    checkpoint cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30
    delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400
    tlsprune cmd="tls_prune" at=0400 }

    /etc/imapd.conf
    configdirectory: /var/imap
    partition-default: /var/spool/imap
    admins: cyrus
    sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
    allowplaintext: yes
    sieveusehomedir: false
    sievedir: /var/spool/sieve
    altnamespace: yes
    virtdomains: no
    hashimapspool: 1
    fulldirhash: 1
    createonpost: 1
    autocreatequota: -1
    sasl_auxprop_plugin: plain digestmd5
    sasl_sql_select: dummy
    allowusermoves: yes

    Backtrace from the coredump:
    core 'core' of 6551: /usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb -r
     ff159520 __dbreg_open_file (fedec, d4899, d6978, e0468, 0, d5c58) + f8
     ff159084 __dbreg_register_recover (d5c58, 0, ffbfe8e0, 6, 0, ff1cfc6c)
    + 1cc
     ff140594 __db_dispatch (d5c58, e0468, b6, ffbfe9ac, ffbfe8e0, 6) + 128
     ff15f218 __env_openfiles (d5c58, d7410, e0468, ffff8755, a00000, 1) + f8
     ff15e428 __db_apprec (d5c58, ffbfe988, 20, ff1cfc6c, ff1cfc6c, 0) + 5f8
     ff15be44 __dbenv_open (d5cf8, 4000, d5cfc, 4000, 80020, d5c58) + 540
     00037114 init (0, d4000, ffbfebbd, ffbfebb0, 7000, 36f34) + 1e0
     00030500 cyrusdb_init (e, 64, b0, 141, 29c98, c8fe8) + 6c
     0001f0e0 cyrus_init (0, 3a6a0, 3bc00, 0, 0, 1) + 3cc
     00015c2c main (2, ffbffd24, ffbffd30, 3a660, 0, d4000) + 108
     00015830 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c

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    Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
    List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
    

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