Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Paul Ezvan wrote: I have just saw this message on the LKML : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/13/95 It is the same behaviour, maybe it is related to our bug ? Sounds quite likely: a) it's the same kernel version as us, and b) it seems to involve inotify, which is where the dovecot people suspect

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Ezvan
Le Saturday 13 December 2008 18:55:14 David Rosenstrauch, vous avez écrit : > 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

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread 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 e

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Ezvan
Le Saturday 13 December 2008 15:58:16 David Rosenstrauch, vous avez écrit : > Andreas Radke wrote: > > looks ok here using 2 claws-mail clients. maybe it's indeed Thunderbird. > > Not sure what's going on, but apparently I'm not the only person seeing > this. A bunch of other people have seen the

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Andreas Radke wrote: looks ok here using 2 claws-mail clients. maybe it's indeed Thunderbird. Not sure what's going on, but apparently I'm not the only person seeing this. A bunch of other people have seen the same thing. The dovecot guys are speculating that it's something in the kernel.

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:34:56 -0500 schrieb David Rosenstrauch : > > > 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 usin

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-13 Thread RedShift
Hello 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. And worse, there's no way to kill the processes ei

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
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

[arch-general] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
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. And worse, there's no way to kill the processes either (neither kill -15 or kill -9 w