Please help: Can auth but can't select

[Nick Fisher]

Hi Philip....
Thanks for the mail. One of my raid arrays was indeed
having a problem but was used for nothing more than
mp3 storage. I totaly discounted the idea that it
might be responcable for Cyrus's problems.... but it
was. If I bring the server up without that array
mounted Cyrus works like it's old self again. 
Frankly I'm supprised that Cyrus had such a problem
when none of the other apps on the server even seemed
to notice. Thanks again for the push in the right
direction.

  Nick

--- Philip Edelbrock <phil at edgedesign.us> wrote:

> 
> Hi, I'm mostly a lurker and just receintly set up a
> cyrus-imapd server.
> 
> But, a few basic suggestions come to mind: Check
> your harddrive(s) to 
> make sure they aren't failing (check dmesg, run
> 'smartctl -a hdx', 
> etc.).  When disks fail, they tend to get really,
> really slow.
> 
> Check to make sure you drives aren't full ('df').
> 
> Lastly, you might check to see if there's a specific
> process slowing 
> things down (netstat, top, etc.).
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
> Nick Fisher wrote:
> > Hello!
> > My Cyrus imapd installation suddenly slowed to a
> crawl
> > and stopped yesterday. As of now I can
> authenticate
> > (very quick and responsive) but I cannot do
> anything
> > after that. Very occasionally I can do a select
> and
> > retrieve a message but it take a *VERY* LONG time.
> I
> > have tested this with multiple clients and it's
> > without a doubt a server problem.
> > This is totally out of character for my Cyrus
> install,
> > it's always been very fast and stable. Nothing
> much
> > has changed on the server recently. Yesterday when
> > this problem started I had a problem with a bunch
> of
> > unkillable processes (mostly rsync). I ended up
> having
> > to power cycle the machine and everything is back
> to
> > normal except Cyrus.
> > I have combed through the Cyrus logs but I can't
> find
> > any errors, Cyrus appears to be perfectly happy.
> > 
> > I am running Cyrus 2.2.12 on a gentoo system.
> > I have no idea where to start troubleshooting this
> > problem, mostly because I can’t figure out what it
> is.
> > Any advice, pointers or links would be most
> > appreciated. If there are any logs or additional
> > information that would help, I’m happy to supply
> them.
> > 
> > Many thanks....
> > 
> >   Nick
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 		
> >
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