needs 5 Minutes to start zimbra

[otac]

My system needs about 5 minutes to start zimbra services, Is it normal??

Thanks

[dalmate]

yes, normal, my server too,

[priyadarsanroy]

Mine too takes around 4 min

[ArcaneMagus]

There are a LOT of different things being started up when Zimbra starts, involving a lot of CPU and disk activity. My server has a dual core Intel Xeon CPU 3040 @ 1.86GHz with 4GB of RAM:

zimbra@email:~$ time zmcontrol stop; time zmcontrol start
Host email.domain.com
        Stopping stats...Done.
        Stopping mta...Done.
        Stopping spell...Done.
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping imapproxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.

real    0m31.709s
user    0m1.480s
sys     0m0.330s
Host email.domain.com
        Starting ldap...Done.
        Starting logger...Done.
        Starting mailbox...Done.
        Starting antispam...Done.
        Starting antivirus...Done.
        Starting snmp...Done.
        Starting spell...Done.
        Starting mta...Done.
        Starting stats...Done.

real    2m53.034s
user    2m41.920s
sys     0m9.560s
zimbra@email:~$

[Dirk]

My testing system takes ages too but I've never bothered to time it. Taking a cue from ArcaneMagus however, my results show:

zimbra@zimbra:/home/mat$ time zmcontrol stop; time zmcontrol start
Host 
        Stopping stats...Done.
        Stopping mta...Done.
        Stopping spell...Done.
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping imapproxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping convertd...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.

real    0m27.154s
user    0m1.930s
sys     0m0.750s
Host 
        Starting ldap...Done.
        Starting logger...Done.
        Starting convertd...Done.
        Starting mailbox...Done.
        Starting antispam...Done.
        Starting antivirus...Done.
        Starting snmp...Done.
        Starting spell...Done.
        Starting mta...Done.
        Starting stats...Done.

real    4m19.145s
user    3m32.510s
sys     0m22.190s

[strike]I'll try the production system later.[/strike] I'll do the production system in the middle of the day, noone will notice

zimbra@mail:/home/mat$ time zmcontrol stop; time zmcontrol start
Host 
        Stopping stats...Done.
        Stopping mta...Done.
        Stopping spell...Done.
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping imapproxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping convertd...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.

real    0m26.490s
user    0m1.400s
sys     0m0.660s
Host 
        Starting ldap...Done.
        Starting logger...Done.
        Starting convertd...Done.
        Starting mailbox...Done.
        Starting antispam...Done.
        Starting antivirus...Done.
        Starting snmp...Done.
        Starting spell...Done.
        Starting mta...Done.
        Starting stats...Done.

real    1m28.938s
user    1m13.230s
sys     0m7.950s

Stopping the systems seems to take about the same time, but the restart shows a big difference.
The test system is a P4 at 2GHz with 1GB ram and single hard drive and production is a quad Xeon 2GHz with 6GB ram and a raid 5 array.

[ArcaneMagus]

Yea with the large difference between sys and user time it looks like most of the work done is just plain CPU work.