[Dovecot] dovecot/lmtp munmap()-ing a lot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 8.6.2014, at 11.59, Ralf Hildebrandt <r at sys4.de> wrote:

> I observed several long running dovecot/lmtp processes hogging the
> CPU. I then strace'd them (strace -c -p 6375) and found them
> munmap()-ing a lot:
> 
> % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 97.18   19.592537        1878     10430           munmap
>  2.28    0.458984          36     12696           epoll_ctl
>  0.26    0.052926          10      5288           fdatasync
>  0.21    0.042472           3     13679           epoll_wait
> ... snip ...  
> 
> Why would that happen? (dovecot 2.1.17)

Difficult to say. It could be munmap()ing memory allocations or it could be munmap()ing Dovecot index files. Weren't there equivalent number of mmap() calls?..

BTW. In v2.2 the index file handling is faster for LDA/LMTP because it doesn't even try to mmap() the full indexes into memory.