Marc,

I think what you're seeing is fallout from a failed attempt to fix bug
363. Gimme a minute to verify and commit the fix I've got pending in my
git tree.

Marc Dirix wrote:
> Do a lott of <defunct> imap processes explain why dbmail is slow?
> 
> # ps xfa |grep dbmail
> 
> 17124 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/dbmail-imapd
> 17126 ?        S      0:01  \_ /usr/sbin/dbmail-imapd
> 7340 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 7346 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 7348 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 9119 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 9124 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 10753 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 10759 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 14689 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 15684 ?        Z      0:00      \_ [dbmail-imapd] <defunct>
> 
> 
> Op 22-jun-2006, om 22:54 heeft Marc Dirix het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Hi Jorge,
>>
>> Do you also use apple's mail.app?
>> Which dbmail version do you use?
>>
>> I actually also don't have an high load on the server, but inspite
>> still have a slow working mail.app.
>> When it is busy sometimes it takes about 1 minut or more to show the
>> contents of a mailfolder.
>> Fast switching between folders almost always causes an slow imap
>> interface. Restarting dbmail however removes the effect.
>>
>> I'm using dbmail version 2173 svn.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> Op 22-jun-2006, om 12:59 heeft Jorge Bastos het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> I don't have that idea of the imap server.
>>> I have alot os connection to the imap server, and use imap my
>>> personal email acount, and i have emails from 2003, and a big part of
>>> them with big attachments, and also, about 25 folders with some of
>>> them with subfolders, all folders and subfolders with messages and
>>> attach's.
>>> This is me, not counting the other persons who connect to imap and
>>> pop3 server, and the constant emails that get in the server.
>>> Never saw nothing more than 0.01 of load on the server sinserely.
>>>
>>> My server's not much thing, P4 with HT and enabled in the kernel,
>>> 512RAM, and 2x100GB SATA 1 with linux RAID 1
>>> With last DBmail svn version, and MySQL 5.0.22 plus clamsmtpd+postfix
>>> 2....... something don't remember the version now
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Dirix"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "DBMail mailinglist" <dbmail@dbmail.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:13 AM
>>> Subject: [Dbmail] Imap problems persist
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> After having done some more testing, it seems I can conclude the
>>>> following (with mail.app)
>>>>
>>>> If I restart dbmail everything works nice and fast, but when dbmail 
>>>> has run for about a half a day
>>>> things get slower by the minut.
>>>>
>>>> It seems, as if dbmail does act on every command I give (in
>>>> mail.app) however takes time
>>>> doing every command after eachother. Meaning if I delete a message, 
>>>> go to a different mailbox and come back the delete message seem not 
>>>> to have been deleted, but after waiting for dbmail to
>>>> get to the queued command to delete the message it gets deleted
>>>> after all.
>>>>
>>>> Does this make sense?
>>>>
>>>> Concluding, it seems that dbmail can't handle a lott of commands, 
>>>> send by mail.app, send shortly
>>>> after eachother. Since I read my messages threaded, I sometime
>>>> delete  a complete thread.
>>>>
>>>> Moving messages is also not for the impatient :)
>>>>
>>>> I can provide an L5, however then I have to restart dbmail, wait 
>>>> until things get slow, which would cause my logfile to blow up. Can
>>>> I  redirect the L5 output to a different logfile then mail.log?
>>>>
>>>> Met vriendelijke groet,
>>>>
>>>> Marc Dirix
>>>>
>>>> Electronics Design
>>>> Graaf Wolter Hoenstr 2
>>>> 6243 BE Geulle
>>>> The Netherlands
>>>> Tel. +31.6.27056985
>>>>
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