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.