On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 01:22 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: > On Tue, August 14, 2012 1:06 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: > > > >> All, > >> > >> > >> Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus server > >> I/O activity and I cannot explain myself why pop3d processes carry > >> out read operations on files in the 'stage.' subdirectories. > > > > Is it reading them by name, or just the same inode? > > > There are no long lived links in our 'stage.' subdirs. > > % !! > ls -l /cyr[1-9]/stage./* > No match > % > > > We do re-use pop3 and imap server processes, though. > (-U 10 parameter on pop3d and imapd entries in /etc/cyrus.conf) > > We also observe writes to the 'stage.' subdirs by imapd processes > but this is to be expected, isn't it ? > It's the pop3 processes behaviour which is puzzling me. Yeah, puzzles me too - you can't APPEND messages via pop3, which is the only reason that it would need to use the stage directories. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
