I wrote: >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?
Anyone? Is there a build option I could try? Should I have posted to another list? Was it a silly question? Shall I give up trying to fix it and just write a script to kill old imapds? Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline" _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
