Just for the record, I took Timo's suggestion, and went to just using
dotlocks. The problem hasn't return (at least not yet).
John
John Gray wrote:
The locking issue is on the mbox files. When it happens, I get a
bunch procmail processes backing up waiting for the lock.
The filesystem is r
The locking issue is on the mbox files. When it happens, I get a bunch
procmail processes backing up waiting for the lock.
The filesystem is reiserfs (version 3).
The NFS server is debian sarge box (which will be going to etch this
weekend). And its using the nfs-kernel-server.
The dead lo
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:03 -0500, John Gray wrote:
> I run into lock deadlocks if I run dovecot over nfs
As Aaron asked, it would be useful to strace the process to see what
exactly is waiting: mbox file or index files, dotlocking or fcntl
locking.
> Sometimes I can kill all the processes, remov
A few questions...
1. What are you running as the underlying FS for your NFS share?
2. What are you using for the NFS server?
3. Do you see any messages about lockd in your messages file?
4. When you strace a deadlocked process, what do you see?
5. Do these locks appear to deadlock on the sam
