[arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

[David Rosenstrauch]

Paul Ezvan wrote:
> Are you running thunderbird on the same machine which runs dovecot ? I tried 
> to reproduce the bug whith my remote server using dovecot. But when I close 
> thunderbird, the problem occurs on my local machine (kaddressbook takes 100% 
> of the cpu and is not killed by kill -9), and everything is ok on the server. 
> Very strange isn't it ?

Yup, very strange indeed.

I've not tried this with T'bird running on the server.  Both times I saw 
this was with it running on remote machines (one Linux, one Windows). 
I'm pretty sure T'bird is somehow a factor (either directly or 
indirectly) as I'm not seeing this problem when I use Squirrelmail for 
the MUA.

Would love to get this worked out, as I've had to downgrade my kernel 
(and, as a result, heimdal ... and, as a result, openssh) to avoid this 
problem.

DR