[Dovecot] LOCKD errors

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:17 -0700, Jay Chandler wrote:
> Running the nightly from two days ago.
> 
> The Dovecot log shows no errors, but I keep getting login errors for a 
> few users.
> 
> top shows:
> 
> 71486 user1     1  96    0  4552K  2408K lockd  0   0:00  0.00% imap
> 11170 user2    1  96    0  4440K  2480K lockd  0   0:00  0.00% imap
> 
> And a ps aux shows that these processes have been open for hours.  If I 
> move the mbox that contains their mail, the same error still shows up.  
> The mboxes reside on our NetApp which is NFS mounted-- does anyone have 
> any wisdom regarding this?  As best I can tell this hasn't been a 
> problem before the last few RCs, though I could be mistaken on this.

What does "lockd" mean there? It's waiting for a lock? What does tracing
the process say it's doing?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing

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