What does your cyrus.conf look like? Do you have 'maxchild' set on any of your services (there was a bug a while back with maxchild)?
Dustin Puryear wrote: > > We continue to have problems with Cyrus. Another poster mentioned they have > the same problem, but also didn't get any responses. Would one of the > developers please investigate if this is a bug? What's going on? This is a > real show stopper for us, and apparently for others as well. > > Okay, we have Cyrus installed on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE: > > cyrus-imapd-2.0.16_1 The cyrus mail server, supporting POP3 and IMAP4 protocols > cyrus-imapd-2.0.16_2 The cyrus mail server, supporting POP3 and IMAP4 protocols > cyrus-sasl-1.5.24_7 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) > cyrus-sasl-1.5.24_8 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) > cyrus-sasl-1.5.27_2 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) > > Every once in a while Cyrus stops responding to connections. Now, it does > ACCEPT the connection, but it doesn't seem to send. Okay, so lets say that > I stop Cyrus and it happens to work: > > working.. > mercury# telnet mars 110 > Trying 10.0.0.5... > Connected to mars.actioncore.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cyrus POP3 v2.0.16 server ready > > I get a new pop3d process: > > cyrus 1537 0.0 0.8 18836 2128 p0 S 9:52PM 0:00.03 pop3d: > pop3d: mercury.actioncore.com[10.0.0.1] (pop3d) > > And a TCP connection: > > mars# netstat -f inet -ln | grep 10.0.0.1 > tcp4 0 0 10.0.0.5.110 10.0.0.1.2060 ESTABLISHED > > If I wait a few seconds to several minutes, Cyrus stops working: > > mercury# telnet mars 110 > Trying 10.0.0.5... > Connected to mars.actioncore.com. > Escape character is '^]' > ^C > > And the connection does exist (the connection was made from 10.0.0.1): > > mars# netstat -f inet -ln | grep 10.0.0.1 > tcp4 0 0 10.0.0.5.110 10.0.0.1.2057 ESTABLISHED > > Something I did notice is that when I run lsof that lsof seems to stall > after it hits some for the pop3d processes. Not sure if that is important > or just a fluke. > > What can we do to debug this further? What are some possible issues here to > consider? DNS? Corrupted database files? What? > > Regards, Dustin > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > UNIX and Network Consultant > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net > In the beginning the Universe was created. > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp