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

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Hi,

Why do not you shut them out every day? by cron / find

find /var/lib/cyrus/proc -mtime +1-print | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm




Le 21.01.2011 05:28, Simon Matter a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 20.01.2011, 21:02 +0100 schrieb 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?
>> I'm using Cyrus 2.2.13-14+lenny3 on a Debian/Lenny system.
> Then I think you don't have those fixes and are expected to see such never
> ending processes (pop processes)?
>
> Simon
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