With the following service entry on a traditional murder frontend (v2.3.10): mupdate cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/mupdate" listen="3905" prefork=1 I notice that 2 mupdate processes are spawned at startup: Nov 21 14:43:43 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6935]: successful mupdate connection to cyrus-mm.onid.oregonstate.edu Nov 21 14:43:43 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6935]: unready for connections Nov 21 14:43:43 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6935]: synchronizing mailbox list with master mupdate server Nov 21 14:43:43 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6931]: successful mupdate connection to cyrus-mm.onid.oregonstate.edu Nov 21 14:43:43 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6931]: unready for connections Nov 21 14:43:43 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6931]: synchronizing mailbox list with master mupdate server Nov 21 14:43:48 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6935]: mailbox list synchronization complete Nov 21 14:43:52 cyrus-fe3 mupdate[6931]: mailbox list synchronization complete And those 2 mupdate processes remain running. If I set prefork=0, then no mupdate processes are ever spawned, as far as I can tell. On my old v2.2.13 murder frontends, prefork=1 only causes 1 mupdate process to be spawned. Is this a bug? Should I be concerned that 2 mupdate slaves are running? Thanks, Andy ---- 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