[Dovecot] High Load Average on POP/IMAP.

2013-08-21 Thread Kavish Karkera
Hi, We have a serious issue running on our POP/IMAP servers these days. The load average of a servers spikes up to 400-500 as a uptime command result, for a particular time period , to be specific mostly in noon time and evening, but it last for few minutes only. We have 2 servers running

Re: [Dovecot] High Load Average on POP/IMAP.

2013-08-21 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, if you try the following command during the server has a high load: # ps -ostat,pid,time,wchan='WCHAN-',cmd ax |grep D Do you get back something like this? STAT PID TIME WCHAN- CMD D18713 00:00:00 synchronize_srcu dovecot/imap D

Re: [Dovecot] High Load Average on POP/IMAP.

2013-08-21 Thread Kavish Karkera
Thanks Urban, will try this and will let you know. Regards, Kavish Karkera From: Urban Loesch b...@enas.net To: dovecot@dovecot.org dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] High Load Average on POP/IMAP. Hi

Re: [Dovecot] High Load Average on POP/IMAP.

2013-08-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/21/2013 5:37 AM, Kavish Karkera wrote: We have a serious issue running on our POP/IMAP servers these days. The load average of a servers spikes up to 400-500 as a uptime command result, for a particular time period , to be specific mostly in noon time and evening, but it last for