Does Cyrus benefit greatly from increased FS buffer cache?

2009-04-14 Thread John Widera
Hi, Last week we posted to the list for info about running Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL. But we also needed to ask a more direct question about caching, though, and didn't. So we are now... That q. is, does Cyrus actually benefit from large amounts of memory in an environment with just a few thousand u

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
LALOT Dominique wrote: > . I've seen once entourage on macosx ignoring 5xx code from our smtp > server, and trying to upload a 50Mo file every minute. Outlook will try every second, under some conditions! Funny, I was thinking Outlook Express for this imap problem. I've seen it start a new i

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/4/14 Joseph Brennan > > Strange to see so many logins spread over a short time. They seem to > be in pairs, which is the way some clients start up. I wonder if the > client thinks the connection has dropped, and so it starts new sessions. > I realize the server's netstat shows them as stil

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
Strange to see so many logins spread over a short time. They seem to be in pairs, which is the way some clients start up. I wonder if the client thinks the connection has dropped, and so it starts new sessions. I realize the server's netstat shows them as still connected. It might be interestin

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread LALOT Dominique
Look at this one: [r...@smtp ~]# host 82.240.88.126 126.88.240.82.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer val13-2-82-240-88-126.fbx.proxad.net. [r...@smtp ~]# netstat -atpn | grep 82.240.88.126 tcp0 0 139.124.132.126:993 82.240.88.126:60250 ESTABLISHED 9209/imapd tcp0 0

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
LALOT Dominique wrote: > Hello, > > I've looked at google before asking, but I didn't find something. > Some imap clients are using many tcp connexions. I would like to know if > there is a way to limit them? This could make the client fail and increase your helpdesk calls. Do you mean more t

restore seen file

2009-04-14 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
Hello, Is it possible to restore seen file even if the mailbox has changed ? If yes how ? thanks begin:vcard fn:Mathieu Kretchner n:Kretchner;Mathieu org:INRIA;Syslog adr;dom:;;2004 route des lucioles - BP93;Sophia Antipolis;;06902 CEDEX email;internet:mathieu.kretch...@sophia.inria.fr tel;work:

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread mayak chunder-qwern
bonjour dominique, iptables is well suited to do this. google rate limiting and maximum connections. cheers mayak On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:32 +0200, LALOT Dominique wrote: > Hello, > > I've looked at google before asking, but I didn't find something. > Some imap clients are using many tcp conn

Re: How to clean up after syncserver

2009-04-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:43:10AM +0200, Michael Glad wrote: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:29 +0200, "Michael Glad" wrote: > > > >> Cyrus being restarted / sync server abending, apparently causes it to > >> leave sub dirs in the 'sync.' dirs containing hard links to messa

limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, I've looked at google before asking, but I didn't find something. Some imap clients are using many tcp connexions. I would like to know if there is a way to limit them? Thanks Dom -- Dominique LALOT Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux http://annuaire.univmed.fr/showuser.php?uid=lalot Cyr

Re: How to clean up after syncserver

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Glad
Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:29 +0200, "Michael Glad" wrote: > >> Cyrus being restarted / sync server abending, apparently causes it to >> leave sub dirs in the 'sync.' dirs containing hard links to messages. >> They currently sum to 40k+ links on one of my replicas :-( . >>