Re: Frontend becomes unusable when one backend dies

2007-07-06 Thread Frank Richter
> I assume that the frontend is also the murder master? No, the mupdate master is on another server. > Other pertinent questions are, "How many connection do you normally get?" Just now this number of daemons are running: Imapd/s: 327/458 Pop3d/s: 10/5 Theymay get up to 700 ... The limit

Re: Frontend becomes unusable when one backend dies

2007-07-05 Thread Wesley Craig
I assume that the frontend is also the murder master? Other pertinent questions are, "How many connection do you normally get?" and "In what way is the backend 'down'?" The client_timeout sets an alarm that interrupts the connect system call. The frontend may try more than once, tho, if th

Frontend becomes unusable when one backend dies

2007-07-05 Thread Frank Richter
Hello, I'm running a simple standard murder environment (v2.3.8 on Linux x86_64) - one frontend, two backends. If one of the two backends is down, then the frontend (and the whole system) becomes unavailable after some minutes: On the frontend imapd's and pop3d's are started till the maximum co