[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file and high CPU usage

hydra hydrapolic at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 12:12:07 EET 2011


Yes, it is reproducible.

About the file, I have tarred up the original maildir before I deleted the
dovecot.index.cache, so when I try to bring in the original file, a 'cat'
does no harm. Moreover, I've tried to do this will all files on the virtual
machine, same results - no harm.


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 22.12.2011, at 18.06, hydra wrote:
>
> > After the virtual machine reboot, the CPU usage is normal again, but just
> > until doveadm is launched again (it was run from cron). Sorry for the
> > partition/drive terminology mess up.
>
> So it's reproducible? You could see if you can reproduce it by simply
> reading the file(s) that are causing problems. Like with zsh: cat **/* >
> /dev/null
>
>


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