[Dovecot] unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:10 +0100, Arno Wald wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Anyway, Arno's ps output showed the process to be in R state, not in D
> 
> It is definitely the R state.
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  6717 arno      20   0  2964 1608 1192 R  100  0.2   1158:05 imap
> 
> btw: I have switched from imaps to imap protocol, because I thought this
> might change something. But it does not.

You could see if compiling Dovecot without inotify/dnotify support would
help. I can't really think of anything else.

To me it really seems like a kernel bug if a process in R state can't be
killed.
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