Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Alexandros Fragkiadakis writes: > >>>> If i increase this limit, they can access their mailbox but, CPU >>>> utilisation is 100% during this operation due to imapd and after a >>>> while >>>> the system crashes and needs reboot. My CPU is a 2.4 GHz Xeon. I don't >>>> think it's too old to cope with Courier. > > There's absolutely nothing that any process, not just Courier, can do > that should cause the entire system to crash, and require a reboot. > This is an issue with your system kernel.
I have had FAM/Gamin take down my box before, especially when using dnotify on large mailboxes machine. I don't think it ever caused the machine to completely lock up but at times it would get bad enough that it was quicker to use the reboot button that to wait for login and shutdown. I suggest you try either turning FAM/Gamin support off, recompiling Courier-imap without FAM support (you can do this just by making sure fam devel packages aren't installed at compile time, there is no configure option for it) or by switching to a newer 2.6.13+ kernel that uses inotify instead of dnotify. If squirrelmail is the only IMAP client you use, my suggestion would be compile w/o FAM support since Squirrelmail doesn't make use of the IMAP IDLE command anyway (whereas, Thunderbird and Outlook clients do). Jay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
