[Dovecot] imap process consuming 100% CPU (Dovecot 1.0.3)

[Stewart Dean]

Thanks Timo, you da man!

I found this interesting...Finland has just come out tops again in the 
latest PISA evaluation of secondary school student science prowess as it 
has been for some years.  The US, no surprise, comes out in the middle 
as Joe and Jill SixPack think that achievement in anything much less 
math and science (they're hard!) is for geeks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4073753.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment
Must be those long winters where there's nothing to do but study :)

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 08:09 -0700, Jackie Hunt wrote:
>   
>>> Problem was that it was reading a 50MB mail in 12kB blocks, and Dovecot
>>> wasn't handling that very well. Fixed:
>>>
>>> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/0fba164c6ba6
>>> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/edd95f9c6ba4
>>>       
>> That's awesome!  Thanks so much Timo, you always come through!  
>> I'll install the fixes ASAP.
>>     
>
> Actually that didn't fix it completely for mbox. This should really fix
> it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/212777918121
>
>   

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources 
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504  
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035