At 1:13 PM -0500 12/16/07, Matt LaPlante wrote:
Anyone? Bueller?
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On Dec 12, 2007 9:19 PM, Matt LaPlante cyberdog3k@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm running dovecot on an Ubuntu server (1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2). Dovecot provides pop3, imap, and sasl to postfix. The setup works quite nicely, however I do have one error that shows up repeatedly in my dovecot.log.
<snip> dovecot: 2007-12-12 09:29:06 Error: child 32765 (login) killed with signal 9 dovecot: 2007-12-12 09:29:06 Error: child 18039 (login) killed with signal 9 dovecot: 2007-12-12 10:05:07 Error: child 26088 (login) killed with signal 9 dovecot: 2007-12-12 10:05:07 Error: child 5271 (login) killed with signal 9 dovecot: 2007-12-12 10:05:07 Error: child 5273 (login) killed with signal 9 <snip>
I'm not aware that this is actually causing problems, but since it shows up several hundred times a day on a couple-user setup, I'm rather curious about what's causing it.
It is rather odd. Signal 9 is "KILL" and that is a rather rude way to be knocking out dovecot login processes. It isn't a normal occurrence on the Dovecot machines I work with, and it seems unlikely that anything internal to Dovecot would be doing that sort of thing.
Since the 5 you show imply (weakly) that the slaughter is taking out login processes in simultaneous bunches a few seconds into a minute, I'd start looking at whether you have any sort of ill-considered system housekeeping running from cron.
-- Bill Cole bill@scconsult.com