On 2007-06-17, 13:19, Timo Sirainen wrote: > But it doesn't happen always I guess?
No. The accounts receive most of the deliveries just fine. Then inbetween the successful deliveries, some fail with that error message. > Maybe this has something to do with GPFS? Could be. I'm not sure. > That error happens if maildir-uidlist.lock file was found to exist for > two minutes + 2 seconds, and within those 2 minutes it changed at least > once. > > The uidlist is locked while maildir is being synchronized. With > local filesystems syncing a 22k maildir takes less than a second. > I don't know with GPFS. You could try this with for example > expunging a message and seeing how long it takes to return "OK". Using thunderbird, expurging a message seems to work just fine, and it takes less than a second. > Or maybe GPFS caches uidlist.lock file's existence similar to NFS > attribute cache? Could be something like that. -- Erland Nylend
