Slow connections to imapd *Urgent*

[Peter Lawler]

Roland Pope wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Gnann" <rgnann at corp.pol.net>
> To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 3:51 PM
> Subject: Slow connections to imapd *Urgent*
> 
> 
> 
>>As of today we have been experiencing extremly slow connections to our
> 
> Cyrus
> 
>>IMAP server.  So far we have been unable to detemine any cause.
<snip>
> 
> DNS lookups are frequently the cause of this sort of problem. I would make
> sure you can access DNS from the server, and that you can resolve the IP
> addresses of the incoming clients.
> 
> Roland

Yeah, this was my thought when I read the original post.

The poster may like to check their patching levels. You may also wish to 
try truss(1)ing the master process with timestamping and tracing forks, 
only after it's slowed down (to reduce noise in the logfile), to see 
where things are slowing up.

Pete.