On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Wolfgang Breyha via Info-cyrus wrote:

Hi!

I recently wondered why some of my preforked processes on my murder backends
never get used. I detected them because some quite old lmtpd's were holding
locks on an already deleted deliver.db.

After some debugging I recognized that cyrus-master seems to fork the
configured amount of "prefork" daemons twice. One half listening on IPv4 and
the other half on IPv6. Since IPv6 is practically never used from our
frontends they stay forever doing nothing on the backends.

Is there some reasonable way to prevent this other than setting prefork=0?

I'm only using SERVICE entries like:
 Bimap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5

Only the port is used for listen= without interface/IP.

Use the proto argument:

  proto=tcp
    The protocol used for this service (tcp,  tcp4,  tcp6,  udp,  udp4,  udp6). 
  This
    string argument is optional.

    tcp4, udp4: These arguments are used to bind the service to IPv4 only.
    tcp6,  udp6:  These  arguments  are  used to bind the service to IPv6 only, 
if the
    operating system supports this.
    tcp, udp: These arguments are used to bind to both IPv4 and IPv6 if 
possible.


Here is my cyrus.conf entry:

  imap   cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/imapd" listen="imap" proto="tcp4" prefork=10 
maxchild=4000


        Andy
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