[Dovecot] dovecot auth(default): Master request xxxx.xxxx not found

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Eric Sammons wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Wondering if anyone could give some indication as to where to look  
> for the
> cause of the following error messages.  These error messages seem to  
> occur
> at about the time when users are having problems logging in.
>
> Jun  8 10:33:19 host dovecot: auth(default): Master request  
> xxxx.xxxx not
> found

Do you have any other error messages besides these? Like auth process  
crashing? If it's not crashing, it means that Dovecot starts dropping  
requests older than 3,5 minutes. So the initial password lookup  
succeeds, but what happens afterwards doesn't. Does dovecot or dovecot- 
auth process use much CPU?