cyradm login loops

[Dan White]

See:

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/linerva/project/packages/cyrus/cyrus21-imapd-2.1.18/debian/README.Debian.debug

On 05/07/11 13:38 -0400, Robert Spellman wrote:
>Occasionally, I see something mentioned about tracing a particular 
>cyrus process to determine what's going on (or wrong, as the case may 
>be).  How is this done?  I'm not getting very far at resolving my 
>particular problem, so I'd like to know what the proxyd process 
>thinks it's doing each time it spawns a new connection to itself.
>
>Rob
>
>On 7/1/11 9:10 AM, Robert Spellman wrote:
>>We have recently upgraded to cyrus 2.4.6.  Our environment includes 
>>a server running as a murder server, four back end mailstores, and 
>>two front end servers.  If we mistakenly create a user mailbox on 
>>one of the front end servers using cyradm, and then try to manage 
>>it (dm, sam, info, lm), cpu load on the front end server increases 
>>until the box is unusable.  Syslogs show the user cyrus (our admin 
>>user) logging in over and over, each time creating a new proxyd 
>>process, which explains the high cpu load.
>>
>>Managing mailboxes on the back end servers from the front end 
>>servers works fine.
>>
>>Here's my imapd.conf for one of my front end servers:
>>
>>>configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>>partition-default: /home/imap
>>>defaultpartition: default
>>>sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>>>admins: cyrus backend
>>>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN GSSAPI
>>>
>>>altnamespace: true
>>>hashimapspool: true
>>>allowallsubscribe: true
>>>allowusermoves: true
>>>autocreateinboxfolders: Trash|Sent|Junk
>>>autosubscribeinboxfolders: Trash|Sent|Junk
>>>autosubscribesharedfolders: shared.announce
>>>lmtp_downcase_rcpt: true
>>>
>>>tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.bates.edu-cert.pem
>>>tls_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.bates.edu-key.pem
>>>tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/bates.edu-cert.pem
>>>
>>>proxy_authname: backend
>>>proxyservers: backend
>>>
>>>mupdate_server: murder.bates.edu
>>>mupdate_username: backend
>>
>>
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Dan White