On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:22 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote: > > This also is not the kernel list, since updating to a kernel released in > > the 21st century Cor's issue has gone away, so this thread is now rather > > entirely pointless on the Dovecot list. So I'll my participation in > > Actually, it hasn't. For the last few days we've been trying to pinpoint the > problem by running half a dozen servers with different kernels and options. > This 'kernel released in the 20th century' we have this problem with is the > current stable kernel for debian. So instead of starting a distro war (and I > thought canon/nikon, mac/pc were bad), lets be a bit more constructive. > Plenty of people use the stable debian release. >
Ahh OK, your previous message said it was resolved, did the traceback show anything? > It's happening on about half of our imap servers (20 or so), but on none of > our other debian servers (hundreds). So it's not so weird to suspect a > dovecot link. But it looks like it may be a driver issue on a specific range > of hardware we use. > maybe install a slackware or gentoo box and add it into the farm and see if same problem exists there as well, if so, clearly dovecot, if not, clearly debian, its why I still keep a RHEL box handy, it sits attached to the "dev" unit until I need it to assist to prove/disprove something. All the best.
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