On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: > For what it's worth, I'm building a new server to replace my > long-standing Solaris 7 + Cyrus 1.6.22 server --- one hour of downtime > since 1999. I've used the gcc from the SFW collection, Cyrus 2.2.4 and > Solaris 10 build 55 (which is probably the current Solaris Express bits: > I'm a Platinum Beta site, so I get my bits via another route). I've > transferred my own mailboxes over, and on ``Cortez burning his boats'' > grounds I've deleted my mailbox from the production server. So far I've > not seen any major problems, although a concerted dose of killing > processes at random while under load corrupted my skiplist mailboxes.db > file. For safety I've switched that to berkeley (Sun provide db4.1 in > SFW).
Why on earth were you killing processes at random? You'll almost certainly have more trouble with berkeley DB than with skiplist. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
