On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:10 +0100, Arno Wald wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Anyway, Arno's ps output showed the process to be in R state, not in D > > It is definitely the R state. > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 6717 arno 20 0 2964 1608 1192 R 100 0.2 1158:05 imap > > btw: I have switched from imaps to imap protocol, because I thought this > might change something. But it does not.
You could see if compiling Dovecot without inotify/dnotify support would help. I can't really think of anything else. To me it really seems like a kernel bug if a process in R state can't be killed.
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