[Dovecot] defunct processes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 17:56 -0400, LDB wrote:
> I am using SuSE 10.1 and dovecot version 0.99.14-5.
> 
> dovecot   6267   660  0 14:45 ?        00:00:00 imap-login
> dovecot   6285   660  0 14:45 ?        00:00:00 pop3-login
> dovecot   6371   660  0 14:45 ?        00:00:00 imap-login
> postfix   6454 12811  0 14:46 ?        00:00:00 smtp -t unix -u
> dovecot   6511   660  0 14:46 ?        00:00:00 pop3-login
> postfix   6550 12811  0 14:46 ?        00:00:00 showq -t unix -u
> dovecot   6576   660  0 14:46 ?        00:00:00 imap-login
> dovecot   6579   660  0 14:46 ?        00:00:00 pop3-login
> root      6580   666  1 14:46 ?        00:00:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct>
> ldb       6581   660  0 14:46 ?        00:00:00 pop3
> 
> 
> After dovecot has been up and running for a while (1 month or so),
> it tends to get hung up and unresponsive. I do a "ps" and I have
> a whole host of defunct processes.
> 
> To restore service, I have to manually kill all dovecot processes
> and start it up again.
> 
> Is this a symptom of my version or my configuration?

Are you using PAM? It probably has something to do with it. In any case
since you're using 0.99 version, I'd just suggest upgrading to 1.0rc. It
probably has already fixed the problem.
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