Signal 11 with mupdate master and other funny things

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:08:32PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > If you use cyrus 2.2, mupdate should restart automatically almost
> > immediately.
>
> In the short term, upgrading to 2.2.x is out of the question, but I
> would curious as to why/how it would restart almost automatically.  Is
> master managing it, or something else ?

Master keeps better watch of processes in 2.2.

> > I think the only times I ever saw our 2.1 mupdate master crash is when it
> > ran out of file descriptors...  (This is also fixed with some configurable
> > limits in 2.2)
>
> But would a file descriptor starvation cause a signal 11 ?  I "have the
> usual "setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation
> not permitted ... retrying with 1024 (current max)" error on mupdate
> startup in my log, could it be related to that ?

It doesn't, but it causes a similar situation.

-Rob

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