too much logging

[hw]

Am 29.04.2015 um 16:14 schrieb 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

2.4.17

The URL says "Modified user_deny.db code to open database once at 
service startup time."

Does this mean that before 2.5.1, the database is being opened and 
closed all the time, yielding a log message?

>> 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?
>