[Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 7 18:22:04 EET 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote:
> an  6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while 
> waiting for lock for transaction log file 
> /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z/zabala/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log

This is the main problem. So indexes are also on NFS? What locking are
they using (dovecot -n output)?

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