cpu and cyrus

[Dan White]

On 31/08/11 22:40 +0200, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:51:03AM -0700, Maria McKinley wrote:
>> On 8/31/11 11:44 AM, Wesley Craig wrote:
>> > On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:36, Maria McKinley wrote:
>> >> Anyway, here is an example of some processes that are getting big:
>> >>
>> >>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>> >>
>> >> 24328 cyrus     20   0  147m 6236 5004 R 27.4  0.2  22:07.21 imapd
>> >>
>> >> 27549 cyrus     20   0  147m 6512 5116 R 27.4  0.2 155:41.26 imapd
>> >>
>> >> 30097 cyrus     20   0  147m 6280 5052 R 27.1  0.2  93:44.08 imapd
>
>Seriously though - it's an infinite loop.  There are a few different
>places it could be, and my money is on a bogus .seen file.  There were
>definitely some infinite loops in there, and the bugs in skiplist db
>locking in 2.2 mean you could have any old rubbish show up over time.
>
>So I'm guessing it's a particular folder access that triggers the
>runaway process each time.

Maria,

If the problem is caused by one or a few particular mailboxes, check the
contents of <configdirectory>/proc/<pid> for each of those processes to
track them down.

-- 
Dan White