very old imapd process in /var/lib/cyrus/proc

[Simon Matter]

> Hi,
>
> I see some very old pid files in /var/lib/cyrus/proc:
>
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   58  9. Nov 21:24 12116
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   58  9. Nov 23:56 26636
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   46 23. Nov 10:00 30308
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   53  3. Dez 21:11 5042
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   87  5. Dez 14:54 5623
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   53 19. Nov 11:03 7064
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   55 21. Dez 11:41 8681
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   17 26. Nov 13:59 9610
> ...
>
> # more 30308
> xxx.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.131.xxx.xxx]
>
> The imapd processes are still running. How to kill them? Just a "kill
> pidnumer" for each of them or will that harm any cyrus databases?

I think killing the way you said (which means SIGTERM) is not a problem.
However, it would be interesting to know what those processes are doing?
Maybe you could strace them?
I think the newer cyrus-imapd versions have some ways to detect not
existing clients while older version waited forever, so what's your
version?

Simon

>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
>
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