Shouldn't an event of this type trigger a useful warning instead of a cryptic programming error? On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:42, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:> On 13 Dec 2018, at 7.31, SH Development <listaccount at starionline.com> wrote: >> >> I have started getting these in my log. What does this mean and what do I need to do? >> >> Panic: file mail-index-util.c: line 37 (mail_index_uint32_to_offset): assertion failed: (offset < 0x40000000) > > Your dovecot.index.cache file has grown too huge. The only solution now is to delete it, and perhaps try to shrink the number of mails in the folder as well. The downside to deleting cache is that it may temporarily slow down performance for accessing the folder, depending on the IMAP client.-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20181213/caa7db42/attachment.html>
Yes, and it's our backlog. Aki On 13.12.2018 10.10, Rupert Gallagher via dovecot wrote:> Shouldn't an event of this type trigger a useful warning instead of a > cryptic programming error? > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:42, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi > <mailto:tss at iki.fi>> wrote: >> On 13 Dec 2018, at 7.31, SH Development <listaccount at starionline.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I have started getting these in my log. What does this mean and >> what do I need to do? >> > >> > Panic: file mail-index-util.c: line 37 >> (mail_index_uint32_to_offset): assertion failed: (offset < 0x40000000) >> >> Your dovecot.index.cache file has grown too huge. The only solution >> now is to delete it, and perhaps try to shrink the number of mails in >> the folder as well. The downside to deleting cache is that it may >> temporarily slow down performance for accessing the folder, depending >> on the IMAP client. >> > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20181213/56d0d2ac/attachment.html>
Op 13/12/2018 om 09:12 schreef Aki Tuomi:> > Yes, and it's our backlog. >Internally tracked as DOP-90. Regards, Stephan.> > Aki > > On 13.12.2018 10.10, Rupert Gallagher via dovecot wrote: >> Shouldn't an event of this type trigger a useful warning instead of a >> cryptic programming error? >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:42, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi >> <mailto:tss at iki.fi>> wrote: >>> On 13 Dec 2018, at 7.31, SH Development >>> <listaccount at starionline.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > I have started getting these in my log. What does this mean and >>> what do I need to do? >>> > >>> > Panic: file mail-index-util.c: line 37 >>> (mail_index_uint32_to_offset): assertion failed: (offset < 0x40000000) >>> >>> Your dovecot.index.cache file has grown too huge. The only solution >>> now is to delete it, and perhaps try to shrink the number of mails >>> in the folder as well. The downside to deleting cache is that it may >>> temporarily slow down performance for accessing the folder, >>> depending on the IMAP client. >>> >> >>