On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 08:32 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: > >> an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while > >> waiting for lock for transaction log file > >> /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z/zabala/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log > > > > This is the main problem. So indexes are also on NFS? What locking are > > they using (dovecot -n output)? > > > > Yes, the indexes are also on NFS. > > The locking is fcntl() - the default.
I'm guessing that's the problem. NFS locking seems to break/hang randomly sometimes. Can you somehow restart the NFS server locking daemon?
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