No cleaning-up processes?

[Paul Dekkers]

Hi,

On 30/08/2017 12:56, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am testing Cyrus Imapd 2.5.10 from Debian stable. What I see is that
> the imapd processes become more and more overtime untill they reach the
> maxchild value, and then there is a problem.  I see this with "ps aux |
> grep imapd".
> 
> The server is only used by a few devices.
> 
> Maybe I miss something in cleaning-up processes??

I stumbled upon this, with Jessie (Debian 8) and compiled 2.5.x (not
from a package). Processes didn't quit when sessions were long gone. I
"solved" it by putting nginx as imap-proxy in front of Cyrus. (My
suspicion was that it had something to do with SSL, but I had no time to
debug further.)

Paul