On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sebastian Hagedorn might have said: > -- Kenneth Marshall <ktm@xxxxxxxx> is rumored to have mumbled on 19. > Dezember 2007 17:09:35 -0600 regarding Re: 4xusers imap processes?: > > >Many mail clients keep open multiple IMAP connections. If they > >are staying around, I would leave them alone. Clients get upset > >when their connections go away on them, and then they just open > >a new one so the problem remains. > > OTOH, cyrus-imapd prior to 2.3.11 had a bug where SSL-based processes could > hang around indefinitely. Use lsof and strace (or whatever your platform > offers) to determine whether they are actually still alive. I have cyrus-imapd 2.3.1 on Fedora Core 5. I also had a seen file corruption incident recently. Could the two be related somehow? 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