Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-23 Thread signaldeveloper
Again this is active sync devices that are connecting with a ton of pushed folders. The more you tell it to sync (folders) the more processes it's going to fork for each user folder. Is this affecting performance that bad? What's your hardware? - Paul > On Sep 22, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Moby

Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-23 Thread Shaheen Bakhtiar
2 x AMD quad Core 64bit 4G RAM This morning I woke up to a plethora of complaints that people were not able to access their emails. I remove the aforementioned maxchild from the configurations and restart to server. Once I did that people were able to re-connect with no problems. I did not

Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-23 Thread Andrew Morgan
You should be able to have a LOT of imapd processes with that much RAM. On a server with 8GB of RAM, I have maxchild=4000 for imap and maxchild=1000 for imaps. However, it is good to leave lots of RAM for caching, so those limits are mainly in place to prevent a bad client from causing a

Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-23 Thread signaldeveloper
Agreed with Andy. Possibly an infected machine and a bad outlook hook in that's trying to send spam over your server. You can also try to setup message thresholds to combat this IF that is the case. - Paul > On Sep 23, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > You should

Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-22 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: It happened again….. although it took longer for it to happen, this has been happening only since the upgrade in Jun. The number of imap processes continues to increase until the server is completely OOM. the increase is drastic and all of a

Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-22 Thread Shaheen Bakhtiar
> On Sep 22, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: > >> >> It happened again….. although it took longer for it to happen, this has been >> happening only since the upgrade in Jun. >> >> The number of imap processes continues

Re: IMAP processes out of control

2015-09-22 Thread Moby
On 9/22/2015 18:12, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: >> On Sep 22, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote: >> >> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: >> >>> It happened again….. although it took longer for it to happen, this has >>> been happening only since the upgrade in Jun.