This of course sounds familiar to some experiences we had recently with Cyrus 2.3.8 on Solaris 10 backends pretty heavily loaded with number of users. If you search the mailing list archives you'll find several threads about our problems here at UC Davis. However, the others in the thread have made it clear you haven't provided sufficient details. More details on your user-numbers, activity levels, etc are useful. However the most useful thing you can supply would be diagnostic data run from console during a period of high load. I'd recommend you start over with a fresh post and fill in everything you can think of, it will cut down on the repetition. Output of iostat, traces, etc. ---- 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