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

Scott Ellis scotte at warped.com
Wed May 26 20:48:18 EEST 2010


Yes, Beta5 (which has the zlib and bz fixes) works great.  Thanks for
following up!

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