saslauthd process takes all the CPU

While I didn't have any such problem with Cyrus saslauthd, I do have a possible workaround. Recently I switched away from Cyrus IMAP to Dovecot IMAP and found it wastly superior, at least for small time specs I require. The IDLE works nicely and overall it's such a neat peace of software. It also comes with its own SASL implementation and authentication daemon. The Dovecot auth daemon can support pretty much any auth mechanizm, unlike saslauthd, which does only LOGIN over its socket.

thanks a lot for your suggestion. I wish I had setup that up in the first place. It's just so difficult and time consuming to install a mail server that I'd rather to find a fix for the current one. If I couldn't find why it keeps doing that I'll have to abandon it completely I guess.

@ho1:

… and sucks all my CPU quota until I kill it.

Long ago I had service at another, lesser, unnamed host provider.

They abruptly terminated my account for "using too much CPU".

When I asked them what they meant, pointing out that they

allowed user scripts to run on their hosting server, they would

not explain or give any detail whatsoever. After much begging

they cracked open the door and kicked out my email files before

slamming it shut.

Here, there is explicit CPU sharing and no CPU quota as such.

If two Linodes on the same host server need CPU at the same time,

they share 50/50 and that's that.

James

good to know that! :D

so what is that CPU bar that says

"Your Linode has averaged

blah%

of one Host CPU for this month"

that's why I thought there's a quota of CPU time. Is that just for information?

@ho1:

that's why I thought there's a quota of CPU time. Is that just for information?

Yes.

James