Hello all, Using uw-imap-2007e with squirrelmail-1.4.8 on CentOS 5.4, one user consistently leaves stale imapd processes. Other users can use SquirrelMail, and their imapd processes terminate normally. Discovered the problem when xinetd refused to start any more imapds.
According to netstat, all his processes are in CLOSE_WAIT, but have data in the Recv-Q: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 2898 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:58161 CLOSE_WAIT 4818/imapd tcp 2898 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:58165 CLOSE_WAIT 4848/imapd tcp 2898 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:57142 CLOSE_WAIT 4877/imapd tcp 1 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:52544 CLOSE_WAIT 11984/imapd tcp 1 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:52545 CLOSE_WAIT 11996/imapd tcp 5321 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:40515 CLOSE_WAIT 15245/imapd tcp 2898 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:38256 CLOSE_WAIT 4916/imapd tcp 2898 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:38258 CLOSE_WAIT 4944/imapd tcp 1 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:43402 CLOSE_WAIT 12002/imapd tcp 1 0 localhost.localdomain:imap localhost.localdomain:43404 CLOSE_WAIT 12014/imapd The user has a 200K mailbox in /var/spool/mail and 52M of mail folders in his home directory. There do not appear to be any stray null characters in the mailboxes. Any suggestions on how to get his imapds to close properly, or how to debug this further? Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline" _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
