Negative worker count?!?

[Earl Shannon]

Hello,

We've recently started to see this show up in our imapd.log file:

Jan 31 17:24:03 uni24map master[3673]: lmtp has -2 workers?!?
Jan 31 17:24:03 uni24map master[3673]: lmtp has -1 workers?!?

Does anyone know why the master would think the lmtp count has gone
negative?

The imap server gets very slow to respond to connections when this
happens, which is what gets it noticed. Looking around and this
is what we find.

For the curious, here's uname -a:

Linux uni24map.unity.ncsu.edu 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Jul 31 
01:25:25 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Right now we would entertain wild speculation regarding the
cause. We have 12 machines and this is only the second one to
display this behavior. They are all as much the same both in
hardware and software as we can make them.

Regards,
Earl Shannon
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NCSU ITD Unix Systems