I guess this could be an issue. I dont see any file-descriptor errors right now, but this is a very active system handling mail, backup dns, http, and ftp.
I'll try uping the max FDs and see what happens. Thanks, Ilan On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:34:24PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > I just had a similar problem here today. I saw that users could connect > to the imap port, but not imaps. Also lmtpd process where hung (using > cpu) and unable to deliver mail. In the syslogs I saw messages like: > > master[18444]: can't fork process to run service imaps: Resource > temporarily unavailable > > The fix was to increase the number of available file descriptors. The > default on Debian Linux is 1024. Also, the number of processes is limited > to 256 by default. I increased it by putting the following two lines near > the top of my cyrus init script: > > ulimit -n 209708 > ulimit -u 2048 > > Andy > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: > > > Rob, > > > > Thanks for your continued help with Cyrus. > > > > Well I am definately having some cyrus issues. It seems to fall asleep > > every few hours and never wake up. I end up having to restart it otherwise > > mail begins to bounce. > > > > I've posted the errors here before, but nobody seemed to have any idea. > > I've had a look at some of the mail in the stage directory and I'm confident > > in saying that the mail sitting there is already delivered its just not > > being removed. Instead of filling up the list with more e-mails with the > > same info I'll just post the archive links: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg13708.html > > > > Thanks, > > Ilan > > > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: > > > > > > > Is there anyway to flush the stage directory. My stage directory has now > > > > hit over 500MB. This is becoming an issue. > > > > > > The stage directory should basicly remain empty for all normal cyrus > > > operations, it's just used as a place to prep files before they are linked > > > (a la single instance store) into their appropriate directories. > > > > > > If it is filling up in any meaningful way, I'd look through your logs to > > > hopefully find out why. > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 > > > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper > > > > -- > > Ilan Rabinovitch > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-MAIL > > > > The Southern California Llnux Expo: "Bringing businesses, academic institutions > > and the Linux community together in a way that no other conference does!" -- > > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org > > -- Ilan Rabinovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-MAIL The Southern California Llnux Expo: "Bringing businesses, academic institutions and the Linux community together in a way that no other conference does!" -- http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
