Any ideas? Cyrus takes 5 minutes to start

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:34 -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> We have just upgraded from an ancient version of Cyrus to a new one on
> some new hardware.  I have discovered that Cyrus takes 4-5 minutes to
> start:
> 
> Feb 25 13:42:15 email master[327]: process started
> Feb 25 13:42:15 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: recovering cyrus databases
> Feb 25 13:43:07 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db (30547 records, 2591408 bytes) in 52 seconds
> Feb 25 13:43:07 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds
> Feb 25 13:47:04 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: done recovering cyrus databases
> Feb 25 13:47:04 email master[327]: ready for work
> 
> What was it doing between 13:43:07 and 13:47:04?  Is there any way to
> speed this up?

sure, shut down Cyrus cleanly before you reboot.  send SIGTERM to master
and allow it some seconds to finish off the work, should do the trick.
-- 
Kjetil T.