Am Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:34:56 -0500 schrieb David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>:
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
In recent days, dovecot's "imap" processes keep getting stuck. Each time I check my server there's a bunch of "imap" processes (sometimes 2 of them, sometimes 4, sometimes 6) that are using all of the box's CPU.
Interesting ... seems like the processes start to hang when I *close* Thunderbird. WTF?!?!?
[root@server64 andyrtr]# ps aux | grep dovecot dovecot 826 0.0 0.0 12132 2220 ? S 01:33 0:00 imap-login root 3349 0.0 0.0 7116 688 ? Ss Dec01 0:16 /usr/sbin/dovecot root 3355 0.0 0.0 53924 2560 ? S Dec01 0:05 dovecot-auth dovecot 3393 0.0 0.0 12120 1920 ? S Dec01 0:00 pop3-login dovecot 3394 0.0 0.0 12120 1916 ? S Dec01 0:00 pop3-login dovecot 3395 0.0 0.0 12120 1916 ? S Dec01 0:00 pop3-login dovecot 8767 0.0 0.0 12132 1928 ? S 10:33 0:00 imap-login dovecot 8780 0.0 0.0 12132 1924 ? S 10:34 0:00 imap-login dovecot 10870 0.0 0.0 12132 1924 ? S 12:57 0:00 imap-login root 10871 0.0 0.0 53924 2520 ? S 12:57 0:00 dovecot-auth -w root 10952 0.0 0.0 9564 1004 pts/0 S+ 13:02 0:00 grep dovecot [root@server64 andyrtr]# ps aux | grep imap dovecot 826 0.0 0.0 12132 2220 ? S 01:33 0:00 imap-login dovecot 8767 0.0 0.0 12132 1928 ? S 10:33 0:00 imap-login dovecot 8780 0.0 0.0 12132 1924 ? S 10:34 0:00 imap-login dovecot 10870 0.0 0.0 12132 1924 ? S 12:57 0:00 imap-login andyrtr 10872 0.0 0.0 9232 1800 ? S 12:57 0:00 imap looks ok here using 2 claws-mail clients. maybe it's indeed Thunderbird. -Andy