[Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com>:
> Mark Moseley put forth on 12/9/2010 12:18 PM:
> 
> > If you at some point upgrade to >2.6.35, I'd be interested to hear if
> > the load skyrockets on you. I also get the impression that the load
> > average calculation in these recent kernels is 'touchier' than in
> > pre-2.6.35.
> 
> This thread may be of value in relation to this issue:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/eb5cb488b7404dd2/0c954e88d2f20e56
> 
> It seems there are some load issues regarding recent Linux kernels, from
> 2.6.34 (maybe earlier?) on up.  The commit of the patch to fix it was
> Dec 8th--yesterday.  So it'll be a while before distros get this patch out.

I'm using 2.6.32
 
> However, this still doesn't seem to explain Ralf's issue, where the
> kernel stays the same, but the Dovecot version changes, with 2.0.x
> causing the high load and 1.2.x being normal.  Maybe 2.0.x simply causes
> this bug to manifest itself more loudly?

That could be!
 
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