Strange behaviour

[Stephan]

Thanks, that did the trick !

Cheerio,
Stephan

Am 06.03.2016 um 20:44 schrieb Nicola Nye via Info-cyrus:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I remember documenting a similar problem not too long ago. Take a look
> at
>
> http://cyrusimap.org/imap/faqs/o-toomanyprocesses.html
>
> And see if there's any information there which helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Nicola
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Stephan via Info-cyrus" <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: Info Cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Strange behaviour
> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 10:37:26 +0100
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with cyrus imapd 2.5.7 - I connect to it with two
> clients, both of which are turned off over night. The processes however
> stay and if I start the clients again on the next morning, new processes
> get spawned instead of reusing the old ones. This continues till the
> limit for maxchild gets hit. When shutting down via initscript. which
> just sends a SIGTERM to the master process, there remain more or less
> zombies of imapd procs which can only be eliminated by sending a SIGKILL
> to the master. In the logs I see that some of the imapd procs stopped
> the way they should:
>
> imaps[13135]: graceful shutdown
>
> Others seemed hesitant:
>
> master[11489]: process type:SERVICE name:imaps path:/usr/local/bin/imapd
> age:36588.013s pid:13138 exited, status 75
>
> Is there any way to resolve this ? So far I had to restart cyrus every
> other day to have access to my mail.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephan
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