Hello, I'm running a simple standard murder environment (v2.3.8 on Linux x86_64) - one frontend, two backends. If one of the two backends is down, then the frontend (and the whole system) becomes unavailable after some minutes: On the frontend imapd's and pop3d's are started till the maximum count (maxchild in cyrus.conf) is reached. It seems that they're still trying to reach the "dead" backend server. Maybe it is a timeout issue - I let the default client_timeout (10 seconds) in imapd.conf. Is this value relevant for this behavior? Thanks, Frank -- Email: Frank.Richter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ Work: Computing Services, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany ---- 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