imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

[Václav Haisman]

Willy Offermans wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD friends,
> 
> The following error appears regularly on my FreeBSD 6.2 server called
> sun. The frequency of appearance is higher than on FreeBSD 6.1, where I
> had this error from time to time. The error is not critical, since a
> new instance of the imap program is started upon the crash, I guess. At
> least the client users are not complaining about errors or
> interruptions of the mail client.
> 
> Mar 13 09:51:10 sun kernel: pid 46336 (imapd), uid 1012: exited on signal 6
> Mar 13 09:51:10 sun imapd
> Mar 13 09:51:10 sun in free():
> Mar 13 09:51:10 sun error: 
> Mar 13 09:51:10 sun chunk is already free 
> 
> I use imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2. 
> 
> 
I get the same error occasionally, too. It doesn't seem to affect
functionality.

I advise you against using IMAP UW, unless you know your mailboxes won't
grow beyond just few megabytes or that there will be only few of them.
Their reading and rewriting of whenever you make changes can stress
server quite a lot.

--
VH


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