[Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.9.2004, at 03:53, Zoong Pham wrote:

>> Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes?
>> Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in
>> 1.0-tests..
>>
>
> I just check the problematic mailbox.
> The maximum line length is 2047 characters.
> Most of them are around 1300 characters.

Well, could you attach gdb into the process while it's running and get 
backtrace? ie.:

gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap pid
bt
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