Can you see other strange symptoms on that machine?
For example very high system load but not high I/O?
We had similar issues with imap processes that are hanging in "D" state some
months ago.
The problem was, or is a bug in the inotify mechanism in the linux kernel. Not
shure if the bug has just been
fixed.
For details see here:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-May/065884.html
and solution here:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-June/066314.html
Regards
Urban
On 18.12.2012 17:48, [email protected] wrote:
Thanks Steffen Kaiser ! I think not. The server is currently always 60% of imap processes
in state "idling".
IDLE processes are like this:
root@server:/root# ps aux |grep imap
dovemail 617 0.0 0.0 23136 2260 ? S Dec15 0:01 dovecot/imap
[Username1 IP1 IDLE]
dovemail 677 0.0 0.0 23104 2172 ? S Dec15 0:01 dovecot/imap
[Username2 IP2 IDLE]
...
My "idling" processes are seen as follows:
root@server:~# ps aux |grep imap |grep idling
dovemail 1141 0.0 0.0 16836 2148 ? D Dec15 0:01 dovecot/imap
[idling]
dovemail 3375 0.0 0.0 16828 2120 ? D 15:48 0:00 dovecot/imap
[idling]
dovemail 4833 0.0 0.0 16828 2212 ? D 15:49 0:00 dovecot/imap
[idling]
...
Thanks!
--
Thiago Henrique
www.adminlinux.com.br
On 14-12-2012 06:40, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, [email protected] wrote:
Is it normal this large amount of connections in state 'idling' ?
If they actually using the "IDLE" command to wait for PUSH mails on much more
folders than on the other server?
Regards,
- -- Steffen Kaiser
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