[Dovecot] Timeout Value

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:13:02PM +0800, JackyC at umac.mo wrote:
> I constantly encounter 'dovecot-auth', 'login-imap', 'login-pop3' and 
> 'imap' processes consume 100% CPU.
> I run 'ps' and found those hanged up processes were running for a long 
> time.

Have you tried attaching strace to them?

    strace -p <pid>

will show you what system calls they are making, if any. That can be useful
to determine how they're stuck.