Re: Unable to compact mailbox file mail.box: 03:F5 // EMERG

Hi again,

I recently got the message, that our customers mail.box is corrupt again .. this time router should be shutted down ... mail.box compaction start's at 04:00 ...

here a log extract :

01/31/2004 03:59:11 AM  Router: LowPriorityAllowed is TRUE
01/31/2004 04:00:01 AM  Router: Purging deletion stubs from mailbox file
mail.box
01/31/2004 04:00:01 AM  Router: Beginning mailbox file compaction of
mail.box
01/31/2004 04:00:01 AM  Router: Unable to compact mailbox file mail.box:
03:F5
01/31/2004 04:00:01 AM  Router: Completed mailbox file compaction of
mail.box
01/31/2004 04:01:12 AM  Router: Current time is 01/31/2004 04:01:12 AM, Low

At this time, the router shouldn't be started at all... I'm wondering of these entries :

01/31/2004 03:52:50 AM  Router: Transfer to server XX.XXX.XX is ready with
1 messages
01/31/2004 03:52:50 AM  Router: Transfer thread 00000003 searching for work
01/31/2004 03:52:50 AM  Router: No messages transferred to XX.XXX.XX (host
mxXX.XXXX.XX) via SMTP: Proxy reports that the Target Server IP address
was not found
01/31/2004 03:52:50 AM  Router: No messages transferred to XX.XXX.XX (host
mxXX.XXXX.XX) via SMTP: Proxy reports that the Target Server IP address
was not found
01/31/2004 03:52:50 AM  Router: No messages transferred to XX.XXX.XX (host
mxXX.XXXX.XX) via SMTP: Proxy reports that the Target Server IP address
was not found
01/31/2004 03:52:55 AM  Router: Failed to connect to SMTP host XX.XXX.XX
because Proxy reports that the Target Server IP address was not found

The router should be stopped .. but is trying to send a message ... the smtp-proxy is a AVM Ken! DSL Service-PC ( ;-(  ) .. but that shouldn't cause the corruption ... just that the router don't stop at all ... !

We created 2 program-documents, one to shutdown the router at 20h and one to start the router at 08h ...

-bruno


"Thorsten Klauser" <[email protected]> schrieb am 30.01.2004 12:32:14:

> Hi,
>
> use a program document to shutdown the router before compacting (also by
> program doc.) the mail.box
>
> Best regards,
> Thorsten
>
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > sometimes mail.box dies, it's the most used database on a mail
> > > server. It might be a cp@iris (change programmer at iris) problem.
> >
> > In many years, I have never experienced the "death" of a mail.box at
> > all. Of course a lot of data is written into and removed from a mail
> > box database, but that is exactly what these databases are for. No
> > corruption should occur, or at least it should neither be expected
> > nor easily accepted. Just my two cents, of course.
> >
> > If there are worries about the high I/O load, I suggest using i.e.
> > three mail boxes. They will be used round robin fashion, and maybe
> > it has a positive effect on the compacting process.
> >
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