Hi! I have a mail server where vpopmail is installed. After some time of its normal work I started to notice that 'emerge' became extremely slow. I have tried to find out what actual problem is, and what I found is that etc-update is the cause. It freezes and every etc-update takes 30-40 minutes to finish. My server experiences big sysload during this action. I tried to debug whats wrong inside of etc-upate. And found that one of CONFIG_PROTECT directories is: /var/vpopmail/domains. Obviously thats the problem. I never heard of any configuration files in this directory. This is mail storage directory for hundreds of mail server users. Its main mail base and its extremely large. I would like to suggest to remove /var/vpopmail/domains from CONFIG_PROTECT of vpopmail ebuild (at least I have such dir listed in files/99vpopmail At all, why it was included originally? I do not remember any configuration files stored there. All vpopmail configuration files are in /var/vpopmail/etc. I am sure 'domains' is only for data storage, no configuration files are stored there. File location: /usr/portage/net-mail/vpopmail/files/99vpopmail appserver files # cat 99vpopmail ROOTPATH="/var/vpopmail/bin" CONFIG_PROTECT="/var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install vpopmail 2. Have a large database of Email (2-3 Gb would be enoug) 3. run etc-update. System will freeze for a long time especially if your drives are slow. Actual Results: it should be 2-3 seconds of scanning. as it is after I removed CONFIG_PROTECT, from /etc/env.d/99vpopmail and run env-update
interesting, how can I help in the pushing of this bug fix? I hate doing same things again and again, and this bug appears every time new version of vpopmail is installed. the fix is simple: remove /var/vpopmail/domains from CONFIG_PROTECT . do you want me to submit a patch? Here it is (a dumb simple remove /var/vpopmail/domains from CONFIG_PROTECT: *** 99vpopmail 2007-04-29 14:00:15.000000000 +0300 --- 99vpopmail~ 2003-08-06 12:24:54.000000000 +0300 *************** *** 1,2 **** ROOTPATH="/var/vpopmail/bin" ! CONFIG_PROTECT="/var/vpopmail/etc" --- 1,2 ---- ROOTPATH="/var/vpopmail/bin" ! CONFIG_PROTECT="/var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" anything else I can do?
(In reply to comment #1) > anything else I can do? Adding CONFIG_PROTECT="-/var/vpopmail/domains" to make.conf will negate that path.
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@net-mail: ping!
fixed in 5.4.19
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