[Dovecot] some mail accesses in dovecot 1.1 stall for a bit (in progress)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Nov 2 18:04:12 EET 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:15 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
> Sometimes when I login to dovecot and read a message from an imap maildir folder,
> the message contents do not load for at least 10 seconds, sometimes closer to a 
> minute, but after that first message loads, the rest seem fine in that mailbox.
> The time seems to vary some, usually longer rather than shorter.  

Getting a strace from what the imap process is doing at the time would
be useful. It sounds a bit like a stale dotlock, although Dovecot waits
for two minutes for that. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/6dd5df1c1ec9
fixes a stale dotlock overriding issue.

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