Problems with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.5 on Solaris 9 on production server

[Shawn Sivy]

I want to say that it takes a little while since I tried a couple things 
that seemed to work, but the errors creep back in after a bit.  I 
recompiled with gcc instead of Sun's cc, which I thought fixed the 
problem, but it didn't. 

Off hand, could you tell whether the memory leak would most likely be in 
the cyrus code or in the underlying libraries.  I'll start looking for 
Solaris patches.  Suggestion what library/subsystem I should be targeting?

Thanks for the reply, I've been pulling spending many hours ignoring my 
family trying to the this thing stable.  I may try to go back to Solaris 
8 if I can't get it working by the end of the week.

  -Shawn

Ken Murchison wrote:

> Shawn Sivy wrote:
>
>> I'm having all kinds of problems with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.5 on Solaris 9.  
>> System I/O errors, imap processing dying, IOERRORs.
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions on what could be the cause?  Has anyone 
>> gotten version 2.2.5 working on Solaris (SPARC) 9?
>>
>>  -Shawn
>>
>> May 30 17:52:57 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] 
>> IOERROR: opening quota file /var/imap/quota/m/user.macey2: Too many 
>> open files
>> May 30 17:52:57 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] 
>> DBERROR: error fetching user.macey2: cyrusdb error
>> May 30 17:52:57 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug] 
>> verify_user(user.macey2) failed: System I/O error
>> May 30 17:53:20 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] 
>> IOERROR: opening quota file /var/imap/quota/s/user.sdhugg: Too many 
>> open files
>> May 30 17:53:20 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] 
>> DBERROR: error fetching user.sdhugg: cyrusdb error
>> May 30 17:53:20 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug] 
>> verify_user(user.sdhugg) failed: System I/O error
>> May 30 17:53:40 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] 
>> IOERROR: opening quota file /var/imap/quota/s/user.samuel2: Too many 
>> open files
>> May 30 17:53:40 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] 
>> DBERROR: error fetching user.samuel2: cyrusdb error
>> May 30 17:53:40 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug] 
>> verify_user(user.samuel2) failed: System I/O error
>> May 30 17:54:05 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 240394 local6.error] 
>> IOERROR: opening quota file /var/imap/quota/b/user.balaisi2: Too many 
>> open files
>> May 30 17:54:05 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 335833 local6.error] 
>> DBERROR: error fetching user.balaisi2: cyrusdb error
>> May 30 17:54:05 cyrus lmtpunix[14954]: [ID 860734 local6.debug] 
>> verify_user(user.balaisi2) failed: System I/O error
>
>
> Looks like a file descriptor leak, but I haven't seen this myself.  
> Does this happen immediately when you start up the master process, or 
> does it take a while?
>

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