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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Dbmail mailing list >>>> Dbmail@dbmail.org >>>> https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dbmail mailing list >>> Dbmail@dbmail.org >>> https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dbmail mailing list >> Dbmail@dbmail.org >> https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl