On Tue, August 14, 2012 6:50 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 01:22 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: > >> On Tue, August 14, 2012 1:06 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: >>> >>> >>>> All, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus server >>>> I/O activity and I cannot explain myself why pop3d processes carry >>>> out read operations on files in the 'stage.' subdirectories. >>> >>> Is it reading them by name, or just the same inode? >>> >> >> >> There are no long lived links in our 'stage.' subdirs. >> >> >> % !! >> ls -l /cyr[1-9]/stage./* No match >> % >> >> >> >> We do re-use pop3 and imap server processes, though. >> (-U 10 parameter on pop3d and imapd entries in /etc/cyrus.conf) >> >> >> We also observe writes to the 'stage.' subdirs by imapd processes >> but this is to be expected, isn't it ? It's the pop3 processes behaviour >> which is puzzling me. > > Yeah, puzzles me too - you can't APPEND messages via pop3, which is the > only reason that it would need to use the stage directories.
Bron, I was thinking along the lines "lmtpd processes not having closed file descriptors on very recently delivered messages" (and there indeed appears to be a connection between recent delivery and POP3 session) so I restarted our Cyrus 2.3.16 server with "-U 1" parameters on the POP3, IMAPD en LMTPD processes. But ... This appears to have no effect at all (Solaris 10 here) : all three types of processes get reused hundreds of times. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
