>:w On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:12 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: > > I think I'm seeing this with TBird and 1.0.7...with my own account! It > > may even be a Tbird problem. > > I have a 4way mail server, so when I get 25%, it's 100% of one > > processor. I tried killing the imap process on the server and it can > > back at 9% and climbed quickly back up to 25%. It wasn't until I > > shutdown my TBird session that a clean imap session was established. > > You could truss the process or do something else to find out what > Thunderbird and Dovecot are talking to each others. If shutting down > Thunderbird dropped the load, it sounds like a bug in Thunderbird. Some > clients have been known to keep requesting same data over and over again > from the server in some situations. If I could see what the IMAP traffic > looks like, I might be able to add a workaround to it. >
What Stewart describes sounds exactly like what we are seeing. Killing the imap process doesn't change anything, it requires the client to be shut down to avoid using 100% CPU. We have a user who was seeing this every morning. However, something has changed and he now sees it about every 7 to 10 days. Another interesting note is that he didn't see the issue when we were running U of Wash's imap server. Thanks for the suggestion on the truss command, Timo: "truss -d -rO -w1" I'll definitely post my results when I have some. Jackie --- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
