[Dovecot] imap-login zombies

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 20:21 +0000, Robin Breathe wrote:
> Running dovecot-0.99.13 on Solaris9/Sparc with ~25k users, we are having 
> regularly recurring problems with large numbers imap-login/pop3-login 
> drones, cycling on poll().

What passdb and userdb are you using? Could you attach gdb into one of
those processes and run these commands:

p clients.nodes_count
p main_refcount 
p ssl_proxies.nodes_count
p *auth_connections
p auth_connections.requests.nodes_count
p master_requests.nodes_count

I looked through the code and all I can think of is that either auth
process doesn't reply to some request or master ignores the request to
launch new imap process..

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