On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 01:57 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > [r...@nac /var/vmail/xxx.com/spork/Maildir/.Spam]# ls new/| wc > -l > 70501 > > Mail.app valiantly tried to sync this, but when I realized just how huge > this was, I took the account offline and quit the app. However it seems > like Dovecot is still busy doing something in that mailbox:
It's most likely busy moving all the messages from new/ to cur/. You could have checked that with strace. > My guess is it's trying to build an index. This process is chewing up > 100% of whatever cpu it lands on. Is this expected behavior (not the huge > cpu usage, but the imap server continuing to work on the box after the > client has logged out)? Yes. These kind of long-running tasks are very rare, so I haven't bothered adding any "is client still there?" checks to the code. > Are there any config settings I've missed to sort of put a cap on how much > cpu/time dovecot will spend on a task like this? Nope.
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