Re: Very high load

2017-09-22 Thread absolutely_free
Aki Tuomi ha > scritto: > > On 21.09.2017 00:56, absolutely_f...@libero.it wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am using dovecot 2.0.9 (official CentOS rpm), I am experiencing > > very high load issue. > > > >

Re: Very high load

2017-09-21 Thread Aki Tuomi
On 21.09.2017 00:56, absolutely_f...@libero.it wrote: > Hi, > > I am using dovecot 2.0.9 (official CentOS rpm), I am experiencing very high > load issue. > > I think it is something related to my storage (/var/spool is about 3 TB and > it is almost full). > > I not

Very high load

2017-09-20 Thread absolutely_free
Hi, I am using dovecot 2.0.9 (official CentOS rpm), I am experiencing very high load issue. I think it is something related to my storage (/var/spool is about 3 TB and it is almost full). I noticed those kind of messages in /var/log/maillog: Warning: Maildir: Scanning /var/spool/pop

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-06-20 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, yesterday I disabled the inotify as mentioned in the previous post and it works for me also. Thanks to all for the hint. On 20.06.2012 08:35, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: On Jun 11 23:37, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: We're still chasing the root cause in the kernel or the VServer patch set. We'

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-06-19 Thread Jesper Dahl Nyerup
On Jun 11 23:37, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: > We're still chasing the root cause in the kernel or the VServer patch > set. We'll of course make sure to post our findings here, and I'd very > much appreciate to hear about other people's progress. We still haven't found a solution, but here's what w

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-06-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 12.6.2012, at 0.37, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: >> Yeah. Looks like a kernel bug. You could try if it goes away by disabling >> inotify in Dovecot. Either recompile with "configure --with-notify=none" or >> maybe you can disable inotify globally with: >> >> echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_us

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-06-11 Thread Jesper Dahl Nyerup
On Jun 11 14:51, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 11.6.2012, at 11.09, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: > > > In short, as far as we can tell, all the processes in D state appear to > > be waiting to close the file handle they got from their inotify_init(), > > and eventually all these close()s go through almos

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-06-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 11.6.2012, at 11.09, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote: > Stracing the processes in D state from before they hang has just > revealed something interesting, however, pointing to an issue with > inotify rather than epoll. > > [snip] > [...] > 15414 23:27:36 inotify_init() = 12 <0.24> > [..

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-06-11 Thread Jesper Dahl Nyerup
On May 20 16:29, Urban Loesch wrote: > I checked my kernel and the patch mentioned in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 > > (comment 31) is not applied. It comes in version 3.0.30 and 3.2.17. > > I will see what tomorrow happens under more load. > If I have the problem again,

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-05-20 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi Javier, thanks for your help. Am 20.05.2012 13:58, schrieb Javier Miguel Rodríguez: I know that you are NOT running RHEL / CentOS, but this problem with 1000 child processes bit us hard, read this red hat kernel bugzilla (Timo has comments inside): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-05-20 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
I know that you are NOT running RHEL / CentOS, but this problem with > 1000 child processes bit us hard, read this red hat kernel bugzilla (Timo has comments inside): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Maybe you are hitting the same limit? Regards Javier El 20/05/2012 1

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-05-20 Thread Urban Loesch
Am 19.05.2012 21:05, schrieb Timo Sirainen: On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 08:59 +0200, Urban Loesch wrote: The Server was running about 1 year without any problems. 15Min Load was between 0,5 and max 8. No high IOWAIT. CPU Idletime about 98%. .. # iostat -k Linux 3.0.28-vs2.3.2.3-rol-em64t (mails

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-05-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 08:59 +0200, Urban Loesch wrote: > The Server was running about 1 year without any problems. 15Min Load was > between 0,5 and max 8. > No high IOWAIT. CPU Idletime about 98%. .. > # iostat -k > Linux 3.0.28-vs2.3.2.3-rol-em64t (mailstore4) 16.05.2012 > _x86_64

[Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-05-15 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, I have a DELL PE R610 (32GB RAM 2x Six Core CPU and about 1,4 TB RAID 10) running with 20.000 Mailaccounts behind 2 Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Proxies on a Debian Lenny. The Server was running about 1 year without any problems. 15Min Load was between 0,5 and max 8. No high IOWAIT. CPU Idletime abou