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<body><div>what exactly is the problem you experience when the maxchild value is reached? what do you mean by "overtime"?<br></div>
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<div>cyrus imapd processes are designed to be long-lived, and to serve multiple clients before exiting. if your imap client users are few and their connections are long lived, then i would expect to see lots of processes existing for a long time. that's just normal behaviour - we really need a description of the problem you're experiencing after this point<br></div>
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<div>the config andre provided might provide a start in tuning your setup better for your environment, please review it in conjunction with the cyrus.conf(5) man page<br></div>
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<div>also keep in mind that common clients (e.g. thunderbird) will open many parallel connections, this is not unusual and not a problem unless it stresses your hardware<br></div>
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<div>if in doubt, you can instruct cyrus to terminate any unused processes at any time by sending a SIGHUP to the master process. this won't affect any active client connections<br></div>
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<div>cheers,<br></div>
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<div>ellie<br></div>
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<div>On Wed, Aug 30, 2017, at 08:56 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:<br></div>
<div>> Hello,<br></div>
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<div>> I am testing Cyrus Imapd 2.5.10 from Debian stable. What I see is that<br></div>
<div>> the imapd processes become more and more overtime untill they reach the<br></div>
<div>> maxchild value, and then there is a problem. I see this with "ps aux |<br></div>
<div>> grep imapd".<br></div>
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<div>> The server is only used by a few devices.<br></div>
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<div>> Maybe I miss something in cleaning-up processes??<br></div>
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<div>> With regards,<br></div>
<div>> Paul van der Vlis<br></div>
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