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
> 
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