[Dovecot] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Steffen Weber wrote:

> Just saw this thread on 
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-December/035707.html and I hope that 
> this email gets through (I'm not subscribed).
>
> The described behaviour seems to be a bug in Linux 2.6.27.8: 
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00006.html
>
> This fix seems to work for me: 
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00998.html
>
> It is not fixed in 2.6.27.9, but will be fixed in 2.6.27.10 according to Greg 
> KH: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/14/162
>
> Hope that helps
> Steffen

Thanks, I've cancelled the bisect I was doing after hitting a kernel panic 
today. Not so good to do one on a production box unfortunately.

I will try that patch.