Hi! I had this on 2.3.x already and today a brand new 2.4.11 cyrus-master died as well.... On my murder frontends sometimes (~1 out of 10) cyrus-master dies/exits(?!) right after forking the initial set of processes defined in cyrus.conf. This initial set of mupdated/idled/lmtpd/imapd/pop3d processes are left in the system, but cyrus-master is gone afterwards. After killing the leftovers and restarting cyrus-master he usually survives. And he never died/exited if he survived the initial execs. The 2.3.x frontends are RHEL5/i386 and the 2.4.11 are RHEL6/x86_64. I thought it is the heavy initial load on our frontends causing this, but the 2.4.11 frontend has no load or connection at all currently. cyrus-master is started with "-d -x /var/agentx/master -P 30" The log of the master says nothing unusual: > Sep 19 14:20:32 jarvis master[1738]: process started > Sep 19 14:20:32 jarvis master[1747]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb > Sep 19 14:20:49 jarvis master[1786]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/idled > Sep 19 14:20:49 jarvis master[1738]: ready for work > Sep 19 14:20:49 jarvis master[1789]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd > Sep 19 14:20:49 jarvis master[1790]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd > Sep 19 14:20:49 jarvis master[1791]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/pop3d .... and some more exec, but no note about exiting. My cyrus.conf: ------------------------ START { recover cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r" idled cmd="idled" } SERVICES { mupdate cmd="mupdate" listen=3905 prefork=1 Fimap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5 Fimaps cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=2 Fpop3 cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=3 Fpop3s cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1 Fsieveold cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve-old" prefork=0 Fsieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 Flmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=1 maxchild=30 } .... ------------------------ My 2.3.x backends run a similar config (except mupdate) and never died on startup yet. Has somebody else seen this behavior already or should I try to get more details? As a first step I allowed coredumps. Greetings, Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Breyha <wbreyha@xxxxxxx> | http://www.blafasel.at/ Vienna University Computer Center | Austria ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/