Help! jabberd out of control

We have a Snow Leopard Server installation - currently running 10.6.8

We don't use, and have not enabled iChat. Nonetheless recently we've seen the server CPU running at 50% load, and upon investigating found the cause was the jabberd process continually starting and dying and restarting - and writing everything into the logs (and it was the syslogd process that was hitting the cpu most visibly).

Try as we might, we cannot find a way to stop the server thrashing away with jabberd - a pointless activity.

We've tried enabling and then disabling iChat, deleting the jabber database, and multiple restarts and so on. Nothing seems to help.

Can anyone advise on how to stop iChat / jabberd from running?

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), OS X Server

Posted on Nov 1, 2011 11:38 AM

17 replies

Nov 21, 2011 7:32 AM in response to ath2k2004

Is there some logic behind these steps? Or have you encountered the problem and these steps have resolved it for you?

Nov 21, 2011 9:03 AM in response to Carl Ketterling

Yes I have encountered the problem and the above steps solve the problem and as well push notification server working as well.

After a lot of trubleshooting I discover is that:

1) in ichat settings required the host domains

2) in ical settings required the host name

and that's why push notification server shows 0 connected servers... Pease be aware DNS must be configured correctly.

mmmmmm.... mixed up eeee !!!!

in both cases you must the host name but in additional you must add the domain name in ichat

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Help! jabberd out of control