Re: [Courier-imap] Can Courier crash the machine?

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

Alexandros Fragkiadakis writes:

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> i'm using suse. I don't know if the system crashes because of the
> operating system.

An entire system can crash _only_ because of the operating system.

There is absolutely NOTHING that *any* application -- whether it's=20
Courier-IMAP, emacs, the 'ls' command, or anything else you may run -- ca=
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do that should be able to crash an entire system.  That's what the operat=
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system's job is: run applications and prevent them from crashing the enti=
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system.

> Does the high CPU utilisation mean that Courier does not use DMA to rea=
d
> data from the disk?

Courier does not "use DMA", and there's no such thing in the first place. =20
Courier reads and writes files.  It is the operating system that figures =
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what needs to be done for that to happen.  If your system does not use DM=
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for disk access, that's going to be the case for anything that reads or=20
writes files, Courier, emacs, whatever=E2=80=A6