On 2011-03-08 10:40 AM, Thierry de Montaudry wrote: > On 08 Mar 2011, at 13:24, Chris Wilson wrote: >> There's nothing to debug in dovecot here. Your server is overloaded >> by about 55 times. Buy 55 times as many servers or do something >> about your webmail interface (maybe a separate webmail cluster).
> As you can see the numbers (55.04, 29.13, 14.55) the load was busy > getting higher when I took this snapshot and this was not a normal > situation. Usually this machine's load is only between 1 and 4, which > is quite ok for a quad core. It only happens when dovecot start > generating errors, and pop3, imap and http get stuck. It went up to > 200, and I was still able to stop web and mail daemons, then restart > them, and everything was back to normal. What is your webmail server (and version)? Maybe it is buggy? -- Best regards, Charles