[Dovecot] busy loop?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 18:08 +0200, Cor Bosman wrote:
> I just noticed that about 25% of our servers have imap processes hanging:
> 
> 97996 xxxxxx           1 101    0  4096K  2052K CPU3   2 180:54 98.93% imap
> 
> All with 98-100% cpu load, taking up 1 or more CPUs. 
> 
> dovecot 1.1.2, FreeBSD 6.2. is this caused by the deadlock issue thats fixed
> in 1.1.4?

Get gdb backtrace:

gdb -p <imap process pid>
bt full

If it shows that it's somewhere in index-sort.c then it's fixed already.

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