[Dovecot] iPhone leaves imap process active
Jim
Jim at themailshack.com
Fri Nov 26 06:16:09 EET 2010
A quick search of the archives didn't reveal a fix, so I thought I'd ask the list. I was running Dovecot 2.0.2, and noticed a lot of CPU being used up. I discovered a number of IMAP processes burning a lot of cycles, when no connections should have been active. I traced this to the iPhone leaving the IMAP connection apparently active.
I just upgraded to Dovecot 2.0.7, and I'm still seeing connections left active, but haven't seen the high CPU usage yet, but I've only been running 2.0.7 for about 30 minutes.
I tried adding kill_idle to the IMAP config, but that doesn't seem to have helped. Turning off the iPhone does kill the connection, so I know that the iPhone is really keeping the connection alive, but if I can find a way to keep these connections down, I'd really rather have that ability.
Here's my config:
wrights-Mac-mini:/Users/transmit wright$ doveconf -n
# 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Darwin 10.4.0 i386 hfs
auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5
default_internal_user = _dovecot
disable_plaintext_auth = no
first_valid_gid = 27
first_valid_uid = 27
last_valid_gid = 27
last_valid_uid = 27
mail_gid = 27
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
mail_privileged_group = postfix
mail_uid = 27
namespace {
inbox = yes
location =
prefix =
type = private
}
passdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf
driver = sql
}
protocols = imap pop3
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
user = root
}
service imap-login {
process_limit = 64
}
service imap {
idle_kill = 150 secs
process_limit = 128
}
service pop3-login {
process_limit = 64
}
service pop3 {
process_limit = 128
}
ssl = no
userdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf
driver = sql
}
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = postmaster at example.com
}
wrights-Mac-mini:/Users/transmit wright$
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