[Dovecot] Too many imap connections in state "idling"

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.12.2012, at 18.48, 3.listas at adminlinux.com.br <listas at adminlinux.com.br> wrote:

> root at server:~#  ps aux |grep imap |grep idling
> dovemail   1141  0.0  0.0  16836  2148 ?        D    Dec15   0:01 dovecot/imap [idling]
> dovemail   3375  0.0  0.0  16828  2120 ?        D    15:48   0:00 dovecot/imap [idling]
> dovemail   4833  0.0  0.0  16828  2212 ?        D    15:49   0:00 dovecot/imap [idling]
> …

"D" state means they're hanging in kernel. Can you look with gdb and strace what they're doing?

gdb -p 1141
bt full

strace -tt -p 1141