Will restarting just Qmail pick up those changes?
**Michael J. Colvin**
**NorCal Internet Services**
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*From:* Dave Hallowell [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Monday, March 01, 2010 12:37 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: squirrelmail/imap issue
So I bumped up the MAXDAEMONS=50 and restarted qmail. About four
hours later, I have 43 imapd processes running and getting new mail
results in a timeout on thunderbird. I killall imapd processes, and
can get emails immediately. I noticed there is also a MAXPERIP=4 and
I bumped it up to MAXPERIP=6 and restarted qmail. See if that works.
Dave
Dave Hallowell wrote:
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.
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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
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Have you looked at the imapd config and ensured the MAXDAEMONS is set
high enough?
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