Re: [courier-users] Consistent hang of imapd (gamin/gam_server?)

Thanks for confirming gamin issues. Too bad the Fedora guys decided to
build their courier RPMs against it. I'll see what I can do on these
fronts.

A.

Jay Lee wrote:

>Andrew Athan said:
>
>
>>I am getting very consistent problems with the imapd server hanging when
>>certain users attempt to access their mailboxes. I am fairly certain
>>that the problem is actually related to gamin/gam_server, the
>>file/directory change notification library used by courier. It looks
>>imapd is stuck in connect() or select() talking to the gam_server.
>>
>>I've updated my Fedora system to the test releases of gamin
>>
>>gamin-0.0.19-1.FC3
>>gamin-devel-0.0.19-1.FC3
>>
>>in an attempt to surpass these problems, but my uptade to 0.0.17, the
>>latest "release" versions didn't help.
>>
>>My belief in the theory that this is gamin related is strengthened by
>>the fact that setting IMAP_USELOCKS=0 gets rid of the hang.
>>
>>
>
>Gamin is not supported yet as a replacement for FAM as Sam hasn't had a
>chance to test out FC3 yet or work out the bugs. In my experience,
>Courier compiled against Gamin-devel fine but ENHANCED IDLE did not work
>(no folder changes were sent back to the client. Others have also
>reported lockups and hanging when using Gamin with many users (my test
>only involved a few test accounts). You have three options:
>
>1. Remove gamin and gamin-devel, modify the courier.spec file and remove
>fam-devel as a buildreq then rebuild courier rpm. Once the build is
>complete you can reinstall gamin without fear of courier using it. Your
>Courier install will no longer be capable of enhanced idle.
>
>2. Get the latest fam SRPM from FC2 and rebuild the RPM for FC3. Remove
>gamin and gamin-devel and install fam and fam-devel, recompile courier
>against fam-devel and reinstall Courier RPMS.
>
>3. If you know enough C++, figure out a patch to get gamin working :)
>I'm sure Sam would appreciate not having to investigate one more issue.
>
>Jay
>
>



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