[Dovecot] runaway imap processes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:34 -0600, rpyne at kinfolk.org wrote:
> I am running dovecot (1.2.3) with postfix (2.6.3), postfixadmin 
> (2.1.0), maia mailguard (1.0.2) and squirrelmail (1.4.19) on Linux 
> (kernel 2.6.27.8). 
> 
> I have an ongoing problem with imap processes that hang and eat all 
> available cpu. I try killing them and they won't die. The only way to 
> get rid of them is to reboot the server.

That's a Linux kernel bug. Upgrade to 2.6.27.10 or newer.

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