Timo Veith wrote:
Rudy Gevaert wrote:
Some time ago we had some problems with sasl.  When to many users are
connecting sasl starts blocking because it hasn't enough entropy.
Recompile sasl so it uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random.

Hello Rudy,

thank you for your tip. I recompiled cyrus-sasl to use /dev/urandom whereafter I restartet cyrus. First it looked like timeouts were gone, because nagios reportet nothing. But then after a few hours the timeouts where back. :(

Did you restart saslauthd?



I also tried to raise the prefork number (0->1), but then my users told me that they could not connect to the pop server anymore. Others still could. Also the imapproxy didn't work anymore. I changed prefork back to zero and it was ok again.

What I haven't done before was raising the file descriptor limit. I read about the setrlimit -1 thing in the archive and remembered that I should be no problem. Anyway I raised the number from 1024 to 20480. Don't know if that will help but my feeling was that maybe cyrus is waiting somehow / somewhere because it cannot open anymore files and has to close some before. Just guessing ...

Any more hints?

Timo



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