Any ideas? Cyrus takes 5 minutes to start

[Andrew Morgan]

How about running ctl_cyrusdb -r under truss to see what it is doing 
during that time?  I am unsure if you have to stop Cyrus first to do this.

 	Andy

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:

> Any ideas on this issue?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:21 PM
> To: send_to_cylist at ornl.gov
> Subject: Cyrus takes 5 minutes to start
>
> 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]: [ID 965400 local6.notice] process
> started
> Feb 25 13:42:15 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: [ID 702911 local6.notice]
> recovering cyrus databases
> Feb 25 13:43:07 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: [ID 275131 local6.notice]
> skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db (30547 records, 2591408
> bytes) in 52 seconds
> Feb 25 13:43:07 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: [ID 275131 local6.notice]
> skiplist: recovered /var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0
> seconds
> Feb 25 13:47:04 email ctl_cyrusdb[346]: [ID 127214 local6.notice] done
> recovering cyrus databases
> Feb 25 13:47:04 email master[327]: [ID 139525 local6.notice] ready for
> work
>
> What was it doing between 13:43:07 and 13:47:04?  Is there any way to
> speed this up?
>
> Software: Cyrus v2.3.1 on Solaris 9
> Hardware: Sun v210 with 2 GB memory, 2 1.3GHz processors, 9 GB swap
> Database types: using the recommended default types
> Size: 2000 users, 30,547 folders (i.e. there were 30,547 lines in the
> old /var/imap/mailboxes)
>
> Larry
>
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