On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > Morning, > > I have an up to date FC5 box that runs openldap, samba, cyrus, > mysql, and bacula. This box recently started hanging in general, > not responding to ssh nor telnet logins, any active session when > the hanging started would also hang if I issued any command that > talked to the filesystem. I could do tails on files (/var/log/messages) > that I knew exist, and I could do a 'df -k', but the session would > hang if I did a 'ls -ltr' (to see the most recently changed file). > > I thought I had a filling file system. I use and monitor syslog > quite heavily and thought /var was filling and causing problems > with ldap (/var/lib/ldap) or named (/var/lib/named). I moved these > files to their own file systems and mount points to prevent problems. > > The last time the box froze (last night) I could see that none of > the file systems were full. Last night I stopped bacula, saslauthd, > and cyrus-imapd. The box stayed up last night. > > Could cyrus be a problem. I have nothing in any logs when the > system hangs. What can I look for? > > Mike > > [mikee@host ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cyrus > cyrus-imapd-2.3.1-2.7.fc5 > cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-sasl-ldap-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.1-2.7.fc5 > cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.1-2.7.fc5 The problem is not cyrus, but rather as mentioned before on the list it was my backup system getting caught into a recursive hell of symlinks (FC5 /var/named/chroot/proc is my guess). Mike ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
