# OS: Linux 2.6.27.7-9-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) ext3
There is a known bug with that kernel and fam. Update your kernel or
deactivat efam.
That fixed it for me as well. You can get the patch from gitweb at
(formatting is a bit nicer for patching):
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=711a49a07f84f914aac26a52143f6e7526571143
It is not fixed in 2.6.27.9, but will be fixed in 2.6.27.10 according
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Steffen Weber wrote:
Just saw this thread on
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-December/035707.html and I hope that
this email gets through (I'm not subscribed).
The described behaviour seems to be a bug in Linux 2.6.27.8:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kerne
So where are kernel issues reported? I will try to find out.
Linux kernel mailing list is probably the best place. I could also write
a summary mail about this and Cc it to you all who have had the problem.
Please cc me on it, I'd rather not have to subscribe to the lkml again.
Your argument is bogus - see above... again, a basic, properly
configured firewall has negligible impact on pretty much any systems
resources, even ancient ones...
So, yeah, enabling a firewall on a mail server is essentially free,
whether talking impact on system resources, or dollar cost.
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Wow. Yeah, *some*thing's changed recently to cause this. If I had to
guess, I'd say it's a recent Thunderbird upgrade that's triggering it, as
it's been 2-3 weeks since my last dovecot upgrade.
Some other interesting data points:
* This problem seems to happen when I use Thunderbird (both
I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at
100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it.
What OS/distribution and kernel version are you using?
Gentoo with 2.6.27-gentoo-r5
amd64, 2 dual core opterons
I think the user uses Outlook though, but I can check
I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at
100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it.
hammer ~ # lsof -p 1918
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME
imap1918 vpopmail cwdDIR8,2 96 539699
/var/vpopmail/domains/maxpersuasion.com/
