[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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