Hi All, Problem solved, turned out the index files were the problem in one mailbox. Deleting them solved the problem
Patrick
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Patrick van Zweden
> On 08 Dec 2016, at 21:28, Patrick van Zweden <patr...@soverin.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a quite interesting problem.
>
> I have two servers that replicate to each-other. Suddenly one of the accounts
> is starting to eat a very large amount of disk space on, what basically is
> the replica for this account. doveadm-server seems to hang and keeps on
> filling the disk.
> I came across this message in the logs:
>
> Dec 8 07:36:40 <server> dovecot: dsync-server(<account>): Fatal:
> pool_system_malloc(6291528): Out of memory
> Dec 8 07:36:40 <server> dovecot: dsync-server(<account>): Fatal: master:
> service(doveadm): child 883 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service doveadm
> { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set DEBUG_OUTOFMEM=1
> environment to get core dump)
>
> I’ve increased the vsz_limit to 5G so it has stopped complaining. Only… the
> process never seems to finish. I’ve tried to export the mailbox using dsync:
> dsync -Dv backup -u 'xxxxx' sdbox:/tmp/patrick_export/
> However this process never finishes either. It looks like it stays in one of
> the mailboxes and keeps on trying to copy messages.
>
> Format of the mailbox is sdbox
> Version of dovecot on all servers: 2.2.9
>
> Any pointers for solving this problem?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Patrick
>
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> Patrick van Zweden
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