On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Fabio S. Schmidt wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm trying to fix an environment which has been growing without proper > attention. > > There are about 7000 inboxes but only 5000 are active and the maxchilds > parameter is set as "2000" causing a lot of timeouts when the clients try > to connect. I thought as a first approach trying to increase this parameter. > > I have noticed that even with the "maxchilds" parameter set as "2000" there > are about 2020 processes open, is this behaviour normal? The version in > use is 2.4.12. Are there really 2000+ IMAP clients trying to connect? Try "ps -ef | grep imapd | wc -l". It's also possible that there is an IMAP client running wild, making hundreds of connections. The output of "netstat -nt" might show you if there are a lot of connections from a single IP address. If you really need to allow more connections, increase the maxchilds parameter. Beware that you don't overload the server, either with too much I/O or not enough RAM available! :) Andy ---- 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
