stage directory

[Ilan Rabinovitch]

I guess this could be an issue.  I dont see any file-descriptor errors right
now, but this is a very active system handling mail, backup dns, http, and
ftp.  

I'll try uping the max FDs and see what happens.

Thanks,
Ilan

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:34:24PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> 
> I just had a similar problem here today.  I saw that users could connect
> to the imap port, but not imaps.  Also lmtpd process where hung (using
> cpu) and unable to deliver mail.  In the syslogs I saw messages like:
> 
> master[18444]: can't fork process to run service imaps: Resource
> temporarily unavailable
> 
> The fix was to increase the number of available file descriptors.  The
> default on Debian Linux is 1024.  Also, the number of processes is limited
> to 256 by default.  I increased it by putting the following two lines near
> the top of my cyrus init script:
> 
> ulimit -n 209708
> ulimit -u 2048
> 
> 	Andy
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
> 
> > Rob,
> >
> > Thanks for your continued help with Cyrus.
> >
> > Well I am definately having some cyrus issues.  It seems to fall asleep
> > every few hours and never wake up.  I end up having to restart it otherwise
> > mail begins to bounce.
> >
> > I've posted the errors here before, but nobody seemed to have any idea.
> > I've had a look at some of the mail in the stage directory and I'm confident
> > in saying that the mail sitting there is already delivered its just not
> > being removed.  Instead of filling up the list with more e-mails with the
> > same info I'll just post the archive links:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg13708.html
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ilan
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there anyway to flush the stage directory.  My stage directory has now
> > > > hit over 500MB.  This is becoming an issue.
> > >
> > > The stage directory should basicly remain empty for all normal cyrus
> > > operations, it's just used as a place to prep files before they are linked
> > > (a la single instance store) into their appropriate directories.
> > >
> > > If it is filling up in any meaningful way, I'd look through your logs to
> > > hopefully find out why.
> > >
> > > -Rob
> > >
> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
> > > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
> >
> > --
> > Ilan Rabinovitch
> > ilan at fonz.net E-MAIL
> >
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