On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 00:47 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:50 -0600, Jackie Hunt wrote: > > Attached is the truss for the imap process we are seeing which is > > chewing up CPU. We've seen this issue on several different clients, > > usually first thing in the morning. Shutting down the client and > > restarting always seems to get Dovecot back in sync. Hope we can > > get some help with this. We're running 1.0.5. Thanks! > > The truss output looks like Dovecot re-reads the entire mbox file for > each FETCH command. Did you use NFS? Do you have mbox_dirty_syncs=yes > (default)? > > Anyway this isn't an infinite loop in Dovecot. It's processing multiple > FETCH commands. Maybe the client got stuck somehow and just keeps > sending the same command over and over again? Would have been nice to > see the entire FETCH command and its output. "truss -r0 -w1" does that I > think.
"truss -d -r0 -w1" for future reference. That includes nice timestamps and also shows the IMAP traffic.
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