A quick search of the archives didn't reveal a fix, so I thought I'd ask the list. I was running Dovecot 2.0.2, and noticed a lot of CPU being used up. I discovered a number of IMAP processes burning a lot of cycles, when no connections should have been active. I traced this to the iPhone leaving the IMAP connection apparently active.

I just upgraded to Dovecot 2.0.7, and I'm still seeing connections left active, but haven't seen the high CPU usage yet, but I've only been running 2.0.7 for about 30 minutes.

I tried adding kill_idle to the IMAP config, but that doesn't seem to have helped. Turning off the iPhone does kill the connection, so I know that the iPhone is really keeping the connection alive, but if I can find a way to keep these connections down, I'd really rather have that ability.

Here's my config:

wrights-Mac-mini:/Users/transmit wright$ doveconf -n # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 10.4.0 i386 hfs auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 default_internal_user = _dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 27 first_valid_uid = 27 last_valid_gid = 27 last_valid_uid = 27 mail_gid = 27 mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = postfix mail_uid = 27 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { process_limit = 64 } service imap { idle_kill = 150 secs process_limit = 128 } service pop3-login { process_limit = 64 } service pop3 { process_limit = 128 } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com } wrights-Mac-mini:/Users/transmit wright$