On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: > Lately I'm finding that the various cyrus processes go to "sleep" and never > wake up. As a result sendmail is unable to deliver its mail to cyrus. This > has happened 3 times in the last 48 hours. When this happens users can connect to > pop but not > IMAP, but again no new mail gets delivered from the MTA.
This can happen if processes that are otherwise doing nothing get killed unexpectedly, either by an administrative action or by a low memory condition or similar. > If I restart Cyrus it now takes over an hour to fully start. It spends this > time: converting db files, ctl_cyrusdb -r, and ctl_deliver -r. While these > are running users cannot connect to imap or pop. The cyrus processes use > 97% CPU on a pretty beefy machine for their entire duration. When it completes they > can > connect to both just fine and I can force sendmail to deliver all the mail > no problem. However, this problem repeats just a few hours late. Please read: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WhyBerkeleyRecoverySoLong -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
