[Dovecot] defunct processes

[LDB]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I am using PAM. Why do you ask and what is your theory?

Yes, I probably do need to upgrade. I just hate to go outside of my
distribution's packages. :(

Thanks for the help,

LDB