David Abrahams wrote: >> I wonder if it's held up waiting on something, or if it is actually >> transferring data at that point. Either way you should be able to capture >> the last (few?) request(s) up to the point where it fails. That may go a >> long way toward figuring out where the problem lies... > > There's hardly any traffic during that period. Unfortunately it's a > bit hard to see what's going on over an https:// connection by looking > at tcpflow. :(
I wonder if SSL might be part of the equation? Have you had a chance to try this on a plain http connection? I tried mine with SSL turned on and had no problems, but it's still something to try... >> I also wonder if this is related to the others who are seeing high CPU >> usage. You might check the recent thread about "100% CPU" to see if you >> might also have similar symptoms. > > Their symptoms (100% cpu, browser lockup) look like mine, but their > circumstances seem to be mostly different. It only happens to me > when viewing really large folders. I'm using Cyrus and not Dovecot. > The IMAP server is on the same machine as the webserver. Ah, ok. How large? I tried with folders of between 1500 and 3000 messages, and the highest I could get apache to go with SSL was 72% for a second or two, and the folders still loaded, albeit a little slow. Jim
