No cleaning-up processes?

[Johan Hattne]

> On Aug 30, 2017, at 14:26, Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> 
> Op 30-08-17 om 18:50 schreef Johan Hattne:
>> 
>>> On Aug 30, 2017, at 06:56, Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl> 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 cannot reproduce this.  I did
>> 
>>  # while true; do pgrep imapd | wc -l ; sleep 60; done
>>  7
>>  7
>>  4
>>  4
>>  4
>>  4
>>  4
>>  6
>>  6
>>  6
>> 
>> and so on.  I’d be happy to share my configuration files off-list, if you think that might be of any help.
> 
> Hmm, not sure. Sometimes it goes down with me too:
> -------
> server:~# while true; do pgrep imapd | wc -l ; sleep 60; done
> 125
> 126
> 126
> 125
> 125
> 125
> 126
> -------
> 
> There are only 5 devices connected, so this are too many processes. And
> it become more and more, this afternoon it where 73.
> 
> Maybe somebody here knows more.
> 
> Do you also use Cyrus Imapd 2.5.10 from Debian stable? I have many
> machines with an older version of Cyrus Imapd who are running without
> problems.

Yes, Debian stable with patch from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863520#10 applied.  Just as in your case, there are only a handful of clients.

// Johan