[Dovecot] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

[David Rosenstrauch]

On Sat, December 13, 2008 12:28 am, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:40 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>
>> In recent days, dovecot's "imap" processes keep getting stuck.  Each
>> time I check my server (running dovecot 1.1.7) there's a bunch of
>> "imap" processes (sometimes 2 of them, sometimes 4, sometimes 6)
>> that are using all of the box's CPU.
>
> I wonder what's going on. You're the 3rd person who has started a
> thread about this within a few days. See the "unkillable imap
> process(es) with high CPU-usage" thread that's going on, with the
> exact same issue..
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-December/035662.html


Wow.  Yeah, *some*thing's changed recently to cause this.  If I had to
guess, I'd say it's a recent Thunderbird upgrade that's triggering it, as
it's been 2-3 weeks since my last dovecot upgrade.

I'll take a look at that thread.


> What distribution and kernel version are you using?

Arch Linux, kernel 2.6.27.8

Thanks,

DR