On 10/08/2012 12:48 PM, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > I have exactly the same issue: > > I found on my system that this file: > > /cyrus/mailboxes/e/user/escalations/cyrus.index > > Was being held open by 6423 children processes which all reported: > > fcntl(17, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0} > > The process that was holding the lock reported: > > futex(0x7f6d86e0f720, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL > > After I killed it, everything else seems to be closing out, but slowly. > > As a data point I'm running a fairly different config as Andreas: > > Ext4 file system on native partition (though it's a vmware disk) so no drdb > > Cyrus 2.4.16 with the following patches: > > cyrus-imapd-2.4.4-autocreate-0.10-0.patch > cyrus-imapd-2.4.12-autosieve-0.6.0.patch > This just happened to me again: root@mail:/home/schu# lsof | grep /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index | head imapd 2013 cyrus mem REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 2013 cyrus 17u REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 2929 cyrus mem REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 2929 cyrus 17u REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 3180 cyrus mem REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 3180 cyrus 17u REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 3444 cyrus mem REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 3444 cyrus 17u REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 4600 cyrus mem REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index imapd 4600 cyrus 17u REG 8,8 26432 4034886 /cyrus/mailboxes/s/user/support/cyrus.index A total of 282 processes are hung on this file This process has the lock: root@mail:/home/schu# strace -p 27029 Process 27029 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0x7f6ff0a7a720, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL When I kill it with TERM I get: ) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) --- Process 27029 detached Then my process list starts shrinking as the other 281 processes close out. I should note that the mailboxes this happens on are being monitored by multiple users so there are multiple connections to this mailbox and the others that have had this problem. schu ---- 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