[Dovecot] Busy looping of 2.0Beta4 on NetBSD-current

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 26 20:45:39 EEST 2010


Is this solved by now? (imap_zlib plugin bug?)

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 19:47 -0700, Scott Ellis wrote:
> I built and install Dovecot 2.0Beta4 on my NetBSD/amd64-current system, 
> and am seeing the user-owned imap processes busy-looping.  In Dovecot 
> 1.2.x (and 1.x and 0.x..) I force ionotify and ioloop to kqueue, so I 
> suspected that was the problem.  Turns out it's not: Using poll or none 
> also causes the same problem.
> 
> This did not happen in 1.2.8 (didn't try anything later than that).
> 
> After a quick visit to gdb, I added some i_debug() statements in 
> ioloop-kqueue.c (when I had that as the notify and loop method) which 
> showed that the loop was in io_loop_handler_run() .  I haven't done any 
> similar debugging for the other ioloop methods, but a quick look at the 
> 2.0 changelog for those files doesn't raise any immediate alarms.
> 
> Any ideas what to look for here?  Timo, any ideas?  1.2.x worked 
> perfectly so it's something "new" in 2.0.
> 
> 	ScottE
> 




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