Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
First off, thank you to everyone who's chimed in with extremely helpful suggestions in response to my previous message. Some of them have helped performance, and others mysteriously haven't when I really thought they would, but it's been very helpful for me in untying this knot. I've been

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:51:42AM -0500, Michael Bacon wrote: I have two questions regarding the Murder architecture. The first is just a general annoyance at the way master starts up the mupdate processes. In order to get master to fire off anything, you have to set prefork=1.

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Awood
You can avoid the behavior in your second question by setting mupdate_config: unified in your proxies imapd.conf. That was a long standing issue with murder in a large scale environment with cyrus 2.2. On Tuesday 10 November 2009 @ 11:51, Michael Bacon wrote: The second one is that the code

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
--On November 10, 2009 11:11:41 AM -0600 Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote: I finally fixed that one, but it took a long time to find the reason. I always had two copies of the mupdate master running, but one of them did almost nothing... # ps -fp $(pgrep mupdate) UID

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
I saw this recommendation elsewhere, but I don't understand why one would set mupdate_config: unified if I'm not, in fact, running a unified murder. What's the gain here? We have dedicated front-end boxes and dedicated back-end boxes. Is this just sort of a, yeah, it's not for that, but it

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Awood
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 @ 12:37, Michael Bacon wrote: I saw this recommendation elsewhere, but I don't understand why one would set mupdate_config: unified if I'm not, in fact, running a unified murder. What's the gain here? We have dedicated front-end boxes and dedicated back-end boxes.

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
--On November 10, 2009 1:23:33 PM -0500 Brian Awood baw...@umich.edu wrote: Unfortunately it's not well documented, but the unified murder config currently only works on a proxy host. Don't try to configure it on a backend machine that has local mailboxes!!! Unless you want to manually fix