[Dovecot] Strange dmesg messages

[Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 00:16 +0300, Uldis Pakuls wrote:

> Charles Marcus wrote:
> > On 4/7/2008, Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa (raphaelbscosta at gmail.com)
> > wrote:
> >> Using dnotify dovecot's performance was very bad. The system consumes
> >> 90% of cpu with just a few imap process running (about 30 process).
> >> The performance using --with-notify=none was the same as using inotify,
> >> so it could be the solution for me.
> >
> > dnotify has been deprecated for a long time, and inotify has been
> > recommended to be used instead for just as long...
> >
> You are using SLES10 - isn't ? 

Yes.

> Have you contacted SuSE developers about
> this inotify problem? 

Not yet.

> Even if there is something wrong with dovecot it
> MUST NOT cause kernel level crash, just return error to dovecot...

I will try RedHat ES5. Unfornately I have to use Suse or RedHat to have
a better support on problems with the storage from Hitachi.