Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: squirrelmail/imap issue

[Dave Hallowell]

Jake, Ah ha.  I see MAXDAEMONS=40. How'd I miss that? Okay, I'll bump it up and see what happens. Any suggestions on the number or just trial and error? Thanks Jake. Dave Jake Vickers wrote: On 03/01/2010 10:23 AM, Dave Hallowell wrote: Helmut, I recently ran into this problem with imap timing out.  I don't use squirrelmail much, but I was getting timeouts using thunderbird when trying to send and receive from imap email accounts.  I read a post on this list about timeouts when the number of imap processes reached a certain number.  In my case, when I had the smtp timeouts, I would run from the command line # ps -ef | grep imapd | wc -l and it would always return 43 processes when I was having problems. 42 processes, everything ran fine. When I had 43 imapd processes running and experiencing issues, I would run this from the command line. # /usr/bin/killall -9 imapd this would kill all the current imapd processes and sending and receiving email resumed properly. I am running Centos4.8 and I haven't done an update for several months. Still running qmail-toaster-1.03-1.3.18. I also analyzed, checked, and repaired my vpopmail database but this did not solve this issue. So until I can figure out what is really causing this, I wrote a little script that runs from cron every 5 minutes and if there are more than 42 imapd processes running, it kills them. Here is the script if you wish to use it. ------ snip ----------- DT=`date` KILLIT="/usr/bin/killall -9 imapd" PID=`ps -ef | grep imapd | wc -l` if [ $PID -gt 42 ] then #echo "too high" echo $DT >> /oper/kill.log echo $PID >> /oper/kill.log $KILLIT > /dev/null 2>&1 fi ----- snip --------- Have you looked at the imapd config and ensured the MAXDAEMONS is set high enough? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com