On Wednesday 19 June 2019 03:48:24 pm Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 June 2019 02:44:35 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 June 2019 11:05:43 am Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings;
> > >
> > > Over the last several days, kmail has gotten so unstable its not
> > > usable. Now tdewallet has also died, I have submitted 20+ crash
> > > reports, no reply, and I've no clue if it will even send this
> > > message. How about some help or an acnowlegement of the problem.
> > > I've rebooted, even re-installed all of kmail to no avail. I've
> > > also run memtest about 3 full cycles, no errors.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Let me add a bit more info to this kmail thread.
> >
> > I just changed kernels on this machine, from 4.9.0.9-rt to 4.9.0.9,
> > without the rt.  Kmail always has a cow over to folders indices, so
> > I expected to get a message about spam and spam-hold which both get
> > touched by external scripts or by me moving messages around, but
> > even if a nuke all the index files and then start or restart kmail,
> > it has the rebuild done in 15 minutes or so.
> >
> > But not this time. And lsof |grep index|wc -l shows its gone
> > berzackers: gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep Mail|wc -l
> > 310
> > gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep Mail|wc -l
> > 310
> > gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep index|wc -l
> > 520
> > gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep index|wc -l
> > 638
> >  And it just keeps growing the number.  So I'm going to stop it, and
> > nuke then all. Then restart and time it.
>
> Back to a stable kmail, but it crashed about 2 secs after the first
> start.  With zero indices it took 1:31 to start, but its still using a
> whole core at 100%, and the wc -l is growing by 10 or 20 almost
> everytime I rerun the lsof to get a new count
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 220
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 240
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 260
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 270
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 270
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 280
>
> And theres only about 41 directorys, but 2 of those have 16 and 18
> subdirs so theres not quite 80 dirs all told.
> but there are 70147 msgs if I did it right, looks low.
>
> gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l
> 380
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we have a bug.
>
> > Back later with the results.
> >

Interesting hour, during which I got to exercise amanda's amrecover. I'd 
committed Nik's fix message to a script, with a typu, and wiped the 
whole MaryAnn, so I had to run amrecover, and recover the whole thing as 
it existed about 2ish this morning.  So I could be missing about 100 
msgs that have come in since, or are we? The message I am replying to 
was sent about an hour ago? Ghosts?  DamnedifIknw.

Anyway the indices were nuked, kmail has renewed them, albeit w/o any 
added marks.  AND kmail has quit burning up a core in this old phenom.

Now, I had to change the ownership of two dir trees in /tmp before root 
could run amrecover. So since amanda runs as amanda, I'd better check 
that out. And amcheck seems to think its kewl.

But whats wrong with kmail?  Why do I have to nuke ALL the index files to 
make it happy again.
 
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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