[Dovecot] FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/kqueue high CPU load

[Paul Lathrop]

Taras Savchuk wrote:
> Hi to ALL!
>
> I have dovecot-1.0r7 installed on FreeBSD 6.1, using kqueue and 
> Maildir (<20 mailboxes, < 0,5 Gb size). Periodically CPU load of imap 
> processes increasing up to 60-80%.
> Is it normall behavior or not? May be somebody had such kind of problems?
>
I have also experienced this behavior, which is quite bothersome because 
I sold my supervisor on Dovecot by talking about performance and low 
resource requirements...

--Paul Lathrop
Systems Administrator
SquareTrade, Inc.