David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On Sat, December 13, 2008 12:28 am, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:40 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
In recent days, dovecot's "imap" processes keep getting stuck. Each time I check my server (running dovecot 1.1.7) there's a bunch of "imap" processes (sometimes 2 of them, sometimes 4, sometimes 6) that are using all of the box's CPU. I wonder what's going on. You're the 3rd person who has started a thread about this within a few days. See the "unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage" thread that's going on, with the exact same issue.. http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-December/035662.html
Wow. Yeah, *some*thing's changed recently to cause this. If I had to guess, I'd say it's a recent Thunderbird upgrade that's triggering it, as it's been 2-3 weeks since my last dovecot upgrade.
I'll take a look at that thread.
Another data point:
I do not see this problem on multiple installations of 1.1.7 on FreeBSD 6.3. Clients are Thunderbird 2.0.0.18, Horde-IMP 4.3, Horde-DIMP 1.1, Roundcube 0.2.b and SquirrelMail 1.4.17.