On Dec 15, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Arno Wald wrote:
A new status report regarding this issue:Dovecot on my PC in the office is still running fine with kernel 2.6.26.Dovecot with the latest kernel 2.6.27-9.slh.1-sidux-686 on my PC at home did show the unkillable imap processes after a few minutes.Now I am running dovecot compiled without inotify support on this kernel without any problems for about 70 minutes.
One more thing you could try: Does the hang happen if you use configure --with-notify=dnotify ?
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