Bug or feature: (Too) Many imapd processes hanging around?

[Matthew Schumacher]

On 10/13/2012 07:07 PM, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> imapd      4600      cyrus   17u      REG                8,8     26432
>   4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index
> 
> 
> A total of 282 processes are hung on this file
> 
> This process has the lock:
> 
> root at mail:/home/schu# strace -p 27029
> Process 27029 attached - interrupt to quit
> futex(0x7f6ff0a7a720, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL
> 
> When I kill it with TERM I get:
> 
> ) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> --- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) ---
> Process 27029 detached
> 
> Then my process list starts shrinking as the other 281 processes close out.
> 

Silly me, I didn't think to connect gdb to the process and get a back
trace.  I'll so that next time it happens.  Shouldn't be but a few days.
 Until then, I have a bugzilla report for this issue:


https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3744

schu