Cyrus imapd dying on me

[Rob Siemborski]

We really need more information to begin to help.

What version of cyrus?

What does the backtrace of the core dump reveal?

Is the machine running out of resources?  Perhaps filesystem corruption?

etc...

-Rob

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Nils Vogels wrote:

> Hi list!
>
> In the last few days, I'm seeing more and more crashing imapd's, such as:
>
> Jan 26 21:39:55 imhotep /kernel: Jan 26 21:39:55 imhotep /kernel: pid
> 1194 (imapd), uid 60: exited on signal 11
>
> Which leaves me with a corrupted mailbox. When I next reconstruct the
> mailbox, everything seems to run smoothly.
>
> Is there anything I can do to prevent these crashes, or anyway I can
> further determine the cause and possibly the remedy ?
>
> Telemetry logs show:
>
> <1075149971<10 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS)^M
>  >1075149971>* 1 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 1)^M
> ...
> * 3189 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 3189)^M
> 10 OK Completed (0.094 sec)^M
> <1075149971<11 UID fetch 2889:3189 (UID RFC822.SIZE FLAGS
> BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (From To Cc Subject Date Message-ID Priority
> X-Priority References Newsgroups In-Reply-To)])^M
>
> and here it stops.
>
> imapd core dumps, leaving me a core in the mailbox:
>
> -rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus  18309120 Jan 26 21:46
> /disk/3/cyrus/imap/user/xxx/lists/aaa/imapd.core
>
> Gr,
>
> Nils.
>
> --
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> Work like you don't need the money,
> love like your heart has never been broken and
> dance like no one can see you.
>
>
>

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