too much logging

[Dan White]

On 04/29/15 16:07 +0200, hw wrote:
>Hi,
>
>is there a way to reduce the log output from cyrus?  A lot, if not most,
>entries say 'imaps[20670]: fetching user_deny.db entry for ...', which
>seems to be a rather useless information.

Which version are you running? 2.4.x changed the behavior of when the
user_deny database is opened (at service startup time):

http://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.5.1/changes.php

>The log file has become 3GB in size now from all these useless messages,
>and there's only a handfull of users.  I don't want to make syslog-ng
>filter these messages out as they shouldn't be generated in the first place.
>
>
>Some imaps processes actually flood the log file with this message, and
>I haven't found out yet what causes this.  These processes cause
>relatively high CPU load, and since syslog-ng needs to process all the
>messages, it in turn also generates relatively high CPU load.
>
>What might be going wrong here?

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Dan White