On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 22:30 -0700, Patrick Linstruth wrote:
Here's some additional information that might help. These are the current running processes:
$ ps -ax | grep dovecot 2343 ?? Ss 0:02.99 dovecot 2344 ?? Ss 0:02.97 dovecot 2347 ?? S 0:02.17 dovecot-auth 2348 ?? S 0:02.15 dovecot-auth 7334 ?? Ss 0:12.98 dovecot 7335 ?? S 0:05.90 dovecot-auth 8090 ?? Ss 0:05.25 dovecot 8094 ?? S 0:03.73 dovecot-auth 8194 ?? Ss 0:02.49 dovecot 8197 ?? S 0:01.74 dovecot-auth 9381 ?? Ss 0:00.87 dovecot 9382 ?? Ss 0:00.86 dovecot 9385 ?? S 0:00.64 dovecot-auth 9386 ?? S 0:00.62 dovecot-auth 17247 ?? Ss 0:00.41 dovecot 17250 ?? Ss 0:01.69 dovecot 17252 ?? S 0:00.28 dovecot-auth 17253 ?? S 0:01.71 dovecot-auth
Why do you have so many dovecot and dovecot-auth processes? Are you trying to run multiple Dovecot instances? There should be only one "dovecot" named process.