[Dovecot] I/O leak

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Nov 18 21:52:22 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 11:02 -0500, Jim Horner wrote:
> I upgraded from rc12 to rc14 last night... sifting through the logs I noticed 
> the following. I point this out since it appears dovecot is in high gear 
> bug-fix mode. This issue is not big for me; I rarely stop dovecot. My init.d 
> script for dovecot is basically
> 
> stop)
>     killall dovecot imap-login
> 
> I am guessing there might be a more graceful way to stop dovecot?

Well, killing imap-login processes shouldn't be needed nowadays since
they should die by themselves when master dies.

Instead of killall a bit cleaner way would be to do:

kill `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid`

> Nov 15 21:53:23 myserver dovecot: I/O leak: 0x804d7a0 (17)
> Nov 15 21:53:23 myserver dovecot: I/O leak: 0x804d7a0 (15)
> Nov 15 21:53:23 myserver dovecot: I/O leak: 0x804d7a0 (19)

Could you tell me what this says:

gdb /usr/sbin/dovecot
x 0x804d7a0

It should print a function name which exists in that address. Although
if those messages are from rc13 then you'd need to do that against the
rc13 binary..
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