[Dovecot] Stale imap processes

[webbie]

Hi Timo,

I have the same problem using rc2 and TLS compiled with "poll" instead 
of kqueue.

With only one tbird client, I ended up with 100 processes (ps ax|grep -c 
imap) after one day or two.

kill `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` would not kill those processes. I 
have to do a killall imap.

b8 does not have this problem.



Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:58 -0500, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
>> Ok, my head is swimming after catching up, but I think this is what I've 
>> concluded...
>>
>> I am using Fedora Core 5 and dovecot RPMs.  The RPM that shipped with 
>> FC5 was:
>>
>> dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7
>>
>> after observing the stale imap processed I upgraded this to:
>>
>> 1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5
>>
>> Both of these are built with ioloop=poll.
>>
>> I am still seeing the stale processes with beta8.  Sounds like I need to 
>> build from source using ioloop=kqueue to maybe clear up this issue.  Did 
>> I interpret this correctly?  And should I stick with beta8 or move to rc2?
> 
> kqueue is BSD-specific feature, so you can't use it with Linux.
> 
> But I'd like to know what exactly does "stale processes" mean: Do you
> use SSL and they're all SSL connections? Are they eating any CPU at all?
> If you strace them, does it show if they're doing anything? How long are
> they stuck, or don't they ever die?
> 
> How exactly do you know they are stale? Are you sure there aren't any
> clients that still have active connections to it?
>