[Dovecot] a new bug

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 25 20:41:12 EEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:38, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> withe the latest cvs (and a few days ago) I've got a lot's of such 
> process on the maiul server (and the number of such processes just 
> growing:-((().
> anyway the login problem disapear as I use dovecot as pam module name 
> (both for impa and pop3).
> ------------------------------------------
> root     18923  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    17:35   0:00 
> [dovecot-auth <defunct>]

Nowadays dovecot-auth creates a new process for every PAM check. Problem
is that those processes were wait()ed out only one per second. Fixed it
now so that it checks all of them once in a second. So you'll still see
them for a while, but they should die out soon.



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