[Dovecot] High level of pop3 popping causing server to become unresponsive

[Kelsey Cummings]

On 5/18/2012 6:21 AM, Root Kev wrote:
> During the last time that the load went up, it became unable to login / su
> to root for the entire period that dovecot was running, we had to kill

This sounds more like you are getting I/O bound or swapping heavily. 
What does iostat -x, etc, show when this is happening?

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