> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:34 -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: >> We have just upgraded from an ancient version of Cyrus to a new one on >> some new hardware. I have discovered that Cyrus takes 4-5 minutes to >> start: >> >> Feb 25 13:42:15 email master[327]: process started >> Feb 25 13:42:15 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: recovering cyrus databases >> Feb 25 13:43:07 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: skiplist: recovered >> /var/imap/mailboxes.db (30547 records, 2591408 bytes) in 52 seconds >> Feb 25 13:43:07 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: skiplist: recovered >> /var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds >> Feb 25 13:47:04 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: done recovering cyrus databases >> Feb 25 13:47:04 email master[327]: ready for work >> >> What was it doing between 13:43:07 and 13:47:04? Is there any way to >> speed this up? > > sure, shut down Cyrus cleanly before you reboot. send SIGTERM to master > and allow it some seconds to finish off the work, should do the trick.
I don't think unclean shutdown is the problem here. Skiplist recovery always happens on startup, it works as designed. Simon ---- 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
