On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:36, Maria McKinley wrote: > Anyway, here is an example of some processes that are getting big: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 24328 cyrus 20 0 147m 6236 5004 R 27.4 0.2 22:07.21 imapd > > 27549 cyrus 20 0 147m 6512 5116 R 27.4 0.2 155:41.26 imapd > > 30097 cyrus 20 0 147m 6280 5052 R 27.1 0.2 93:44.08 imapd > > > Unfortunately I can't tell you anymore about these processes, since they > are just cut and pasted from a terminal where I checked top before > restarting cyrus, and cyrus has not regrown yet. It would be handy if you'd gather some metrics from a loaded but not pathological machine, and then additional metrics once it was in a bad state. Also, getting strace output from a run-away (if it is run-away) process would be handy. :wes ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
