database is locked error

[Mikael Syska]

Hi,

I had the same issue ... was running 10 Childs .... just raised it to 16 
.... and it solved my problem of messages pilling up.

System specs are about the same ... I guess the server could handle 5 
times as many mails .... think BitDefender takes much of the load ... so 
it would be removed since we are also running clamd.

System is processing 20k mails per day now ....

I have never seen that error before, but I guess its a DB specific thing 
.... and not related to MS.

// ouT

Mark Warpool wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've recently started getting a lot of these errors in my mail.warn log.
>
> 	Sep 20 16:48:37 mail03 MailScanner[25144]: database is locked(5) at
> dbdimp.c line 402
> 	Sep 20 16:48:40 mail03 MailScanner[24966]: database is locked(5) at
> dbdimp.c line 402
> 	Sep 20 16:49:08 mail03 MailScanner[25144]: database is locked(5) at
> dbdimp.c line 402
> 	Sep 20 16:49:39 mail03 MailScanner[25144]: database is locked(5) at
> dbdimp.c line 402
>
> My server is under extremely heavy load at the moment, doing about 30k - 40k
> messages per day.  It's a SUSE 10.2 box with dual-dual core Opterons and 2GB
> of RAM.  I've been running MailScanner for many years now on various
> different servers, but I've never run across this error before.
>
> It seems to be processing mail, however it also seems the mail is piling up
> and not processing as fast as I would normally expect it to.  As of this
> writing, it has about 1000 messages in queue, where I normally am able to
> keep that to the 200 - 400 range.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Mark Warpool
> Ideate Technology Solutions
>
>