[Dovecot] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

[Patrick McLean]

Steffen Weber wrote:
> Just saw this thread on
> This fix seems to work for me:
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00998.html

That fixed it for me as well. You can get the patch from gitweb at
(formatting is a bit nicer for patching):

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=711a49a07f84f914aac26a52143f6e7526571143

> 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

Good, I guess we just picked the wrong time to update our mail server to
the latest stable kernel.