On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 17:56 -0400, LDB wrote:
I am using SuSE 10.1 and dovecot version 0.99.14-5.
dovecot 6267 660 0 14:45 ? 00:00:00 imap-login dovecot 6285 660 0 14:45 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login dovecot 6371 660 0 14:45 ? 00:00:00 imap-login postfix 6454 12811 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 smtp -t unix -u dovecot 6511 660 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login postfix 6550 12811 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 showq -t unix -u dovecot 6576 660 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 imap-login dovecot 6579 660 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login root 6580 666 1 14:46 ? 00:00:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> ldb 6581 660 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 pop3
After dovecot has been up and running for a while (1 month or so), it tends to get hung up and unresponsive. I do a "ps" and I have a whole host of defunct processes.
To restore service, I have to manually kill all dovecot processes and start it up again.
Is this a symptom of my version or my configuration?
Are you using PAM? It probably has something to do with it. In any case since you're using 0.99 version, I'd just suggest upgrading to 1.0rc. It probably has already fixed the problem.