Bug#588040: very long cyr_expire at startup blocks mail delivery and imap/pop3 service

[Marcus Schopen]

Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-14+lenny3
Severity: wishlist

Hi Henrique,

after a restart cyrmaster process is running, but one can't connect to
imap or pop3 port and sendmail can't communicate via socket with cyrus.
A "ps ax" shows a running "cyr_expire" process for about 10 up to 20
minutes (I think the time depends on the size
of /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db). After the cyr_expire process finished
everything works fine again.

As discussed on the info-cyrus list please deactivate 

 delprune  cmd="/usr/sbin/cyr_expire -E 3" at=0100

in the START section of /etc/cyrus.conf to minimize the downtime of the
service.

ii  cyrus-admin-2.2                   2.2.13-14+lenny3
ii  cyrus-common-2.2                  2.2.13-14+lenny3
ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2                   2.2.13-14+lenny3
ii  cyrus-pop3d-2.2                   2.2.13-14+lenny3
ii  libcyrus-imap-perl22              2.2.13-14+lenny3

Kernel: 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed May 12 22:49:37 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux

Cheers,
Marcus

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