Cyrus 2.1.15 blocking connections after upgrade

[Mike Brodbelt]

Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 
> Master and the service processes communicate over a socket -- master keeps
> track of the number of available and busy workers, and when the available
> number gets too low (below the "prefork" value) it starts a new one.  The
> service processes themselves take care of answering the socket.

Ah - OK, that definitely makes more sense. Looking at things, I also
think you've pointed out where I've shot myself in the foot.....

Looking at the processes with /var/lib/cyrus/socket/imap-0.lock open, I
have 100 unique imapd processes running. A suspiciously round number, I
thought. And looking in my cyrus.conf, I find:-

imap            cmd="imapd -U 30" listen="imap" prefork=0 maxchild=100

I will now go off and bang my head into a wall repeatedly, and remember
to read config files installed from packages I didn't build myself with
a more paranoid attitude next time....

Thanks for helping me to get there...

> The key is what processes are listening to the socket (which shouldn't
> drop to zero unless one of the above two conditions is true).  This issue
> is fixed completely in the 2.2 branch.
> 
> Processes that are already connected won't show anything interesting.

>From interest, how can one easily identify processes that are awaiting a
connection, as opposed to already connected child processes in an idle
state, as both listen on the port, and show up with the socket open in
an lsof?

Mike.

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