> > I come seeing suggestions for things I could check or > change in order > > to resolve this before it gets to being more of a problem > than it is. > > I figured I'd start with Cyrus and then move down to the OS level. > > One thing you might want to try is to use /dev/urandom > instead of /dev/random for SASL on your system (recent > versions have a --with-devrandom configure switch, otherwise > you need to edit config.h). > > Additionally, you may want to increase the number of > preforked processes, but this will only allow you to prevent > larger spikes of activity from affecting you adversely, it > won't help if the load is sustained at a higher level.
Since it was simplest, I started with the preforking. I set it to an arbitrary number of 10. Here's the good news. It works. No more broken IMAP connections. I'll try that recompile as well as time allows but I thought I'd let everyone know that for today, that got it working smooth again. Thank you kindly for the suggestions John
