hanging imapds

[Paul Christie]

Dave,

Most look like this. Perhaps waiting for someone to log in.

serena \$ pstack 18215
18215:  imapd
 fef1ea54 sigsuspend (ffbee4d0)
 feecee10 _libc_sleep (1, 2, ffffffff, 0, 1, 1ab30) + f4
 0001ab30 cmd_login (e2138, ffffefec, e2288, 0, 6e006c69, 6e000000) + 244
 00019684 cmdloop  (dc800, d9400, 4d000, 4d000, 4d000, 1a800) + 111c
 00018330 service_main (0, ffbefc6c, ffbefc74, 2, 0, ffbefa80) + 24c
 00016d28 main     (1, ffbefc6c, 4bc00, ffbefc74, 0, 0) + 460
 00016720 _start   (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c


--On 24 February 2003 07:29 -0500 Dave McMurtrie <dgm+ at pitt.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Paul Christie wrote:
>
>> We are accumulating hanging imapd processes at the rate of about 30 per
>> day. Some are over 20 days old now. I can find no pattern in terms of
>> client used etc. Any suggestions for investigating this further?
>
> Where does /usr/proc/bin/pstack show them being stuck?  Maybe gcore one of
> them, too.
>
> Dave
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Paul Christie
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