Re: [Dovecot] Stale imap processes

Renaud Allard wrote:

The processes just stay there forever and at some point just hit the per user processes limit. They just never die, they don't use any CPU at all, but just stay there without any client connection. On BSD building dovecot with kqueue solved the problem.

I had this same problem, many idle imap processes, using rc2 without SSL, but it was NOT solved by using kqueue. It suggests that the kqueue issue sometimes affects the symptoms, but actually just covers or exposes an underlying bug.