On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 15:16, David Reid wrote: > I'm running cyrus imap 2.2.3 and have just started experiencing some very > strange events when cyr_expire runs. It seems to somehow get "hung" in some > sort of loop and starts eating serious amounts of cpu and then disk space in > the system and impd logfiles. This results in enormous logfiles and the > resultant 108% of my /var partition soon causes problems! > > It's possible that cyr_expire isn't the cause, but the one common factor in > all instances has been cyr_expire eating cpu. The log files aren't available > as I need to delete them to restore the system to a functioning state :( > > Anyone come across this before or have any ideas about what might be causing > it?
I had a similar issue - cyr_expire would hang indefinitely, causing quite a few of them to be hanging around after a few days. It turned out to be deliver db corruption as found by db_verify; nuking the deliver db did the trick nicely as db_recover couldn't fix it. Craig Ringer --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
