successful create but unsuccessful subscribe

[Frank Elsner]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:10:43 -0800 (PST) Andrew Morgan wrote:

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> I don't know why, but we have always operated with prefork=1 here.  As far 
> as I can tell, it never runs more than 1 mupdate process.  That single 
> mupdate process has 15 connections in total from our 3 frontend servers. 
> There doesn't seem to be a need for it to spawn additional mupdate 
> processes.  Now that I look closer, I see that mupdate is threaded...
> 
> We have 3 frontends and 3 backends.  Each backend has about 20,000 users 
> on it.
> 
> Here is my cyrus.conf entry on the mupdate master:
> 
>    mupdate       cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/mupdate -m" listen="3905" proto="tcp4" prefork=1
> 
> and on the frontends:
> 
>    mupdate       cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/mupdate" listen="3905" proto="tcp4" prefork=1
> 
> Hmm, there is no manpage for mupdate either!  Digging around in the source 
> code shows that there are configuration options for mupdate in imapd.conf, 
> such as:
> 
>         mupdate_workers_max: 50
>              The maximum number of mupdate worker threads (overall)
> 
>         mupdate_workers_maxspare: 10
>              The maximum number of idle mupdate worker threads
> 
>         mupdate_workers_minspare: 2
>              The minimum number of idle mupdate worker threads
> 
>         mupdate_workers_start: 5
>              The number of mupdate worker threads to start

Ok, sounds good. On the mupdate master we already have the mupdate_* settings.
Shall we put mupdate_* settings into the imapd.conf on the frontends too?

--Frank Elsner