sync_master dying

[Simon Matter]

> Hi All,
>
> I have had a couple of situations today where sync_master has terminated
> abnormally, and I am trying to figure out where to look for the problem.
> I am running Cyrus-IMAPd 2.3.3 under CentOS 3.6.
>
> The first of the log entries for the two terminations show:
>
> <snip>
> master[6348]: process 22661 exited, signaled to death by 6
> </snip>
> Which according to 'man 7 signal' says that a signal 6 is a SIGABRT. Any
> ideas what would have caused this?
>
> The second error is curious too.
> <snip>
> syncserver[23808]: IOERROR: creating quota file
> /rep1/imap-backup/var/lib/imap/quota/c/user.changed.NEW: Too many open
> files

What about the per user limit? What does ulimit -a tell you for the cyrus
user?

Simon

> syncserver[23808]: DBERROR: error storing user.changed: cyrusdb error
> master[6348]: process 23808 exited, signaled to death by 11
> </snip>
>
> The odd thing about the second "Two many open files" error is that a cat
> of
> /proc/sys/fs/file-nr shows:
> 2175    520     235928
>
> Which suggests that 2175 is the maximum number of open files the machine's
> had, which  is miles away from the file max of  235928?
>
> Anyone have some ideas about what might be going on here?
>
> Thanks
> Roland
>
>
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