Hello, I've just remarked a strange behaviour of the master process presumably. I am using the same cyrus.conf as the prefork.conf example configuration file.
So now what I've remarked is that just after starting cyrus's master process it starts the following processes: hostname% ps -fu cyrus UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD cyrus 855 846 0 23:15:12 pts/1 0:00 lmtpd cyrus 852 846 0 23:15:11 pts/1 0:00 imapd -s cyrus 854 846 0 23:15:12 pts/1 0:00 pop3d -s cyrus 853 846 0 23:15:11 pts/1 0:00 pop3d cyrus 850 846 0 0:00 <defunct> cyrus 851 846 0 23:15:11 pts/1 0:00 imapd cyrus 846 1 0 23:15:10 pts/1 0:00 /opt/cyrimap/bin/master As you can see here the is a zombie process "<defunct>" and it didn't fork the processes correctly as in the config file (5 imapd, 3 pop3, and so on). But after waiting 1 or sometimes 2 minutes then it forks all the required processes correctly as you can see here: hostname% ps -fu cyrus UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD cyrus 859 846 0 23:17:28 pts/1 0:00 imapd cyrus 861 846 0 23:17:28 pts/1 0:00 imapd cyrus 864 846 0 23:17:29 pts/1 0:00 pop3d cyrus 863 846 0 23:17:29 pts/1 0:00 pop3d cyrus 855 846 0 23:15:12 pts/1 0:00 lmtpd cyrus 862 846 0 23:17:29 pts/1 0:00 imapd cyrus 852 846 0 23:15:11 pts/1 0:00 imapd -s cyrus 860 846 0 23:17:28 pts/1 0:00 imapd cyrus 854 846 0 23:15:12 pts/1 0:00 pop3d -s cyrus 853 846 0 23:15:11 pts/1 0:00 pop3d cyrus 851 846 0 23:15:11 pts/1 0:00 imapd cyrus 846 1 0 23:15:10 pts/1 0:00 /opt/cyrimap/bin/master So seeing this behaviour I wanted to ask on this mailing list if this is a normal behaviour ? I am not so sure but I would say no. At least everything works fine... but I don't think this is normal. As OS I am using Solaris 9 on a Sun box. Many thanks Regards