[Dovecot] Is Dovecot SMP and thread-safe?

Josh Burley jburley at kuci.org
Thu Mar 3 23:28:30 EET 2005


Ah, heya Dan. Haven't seen you in awhile.

Nope, no such luck. Most of our users are in the 3000's. I'm trying out 
the current setup, using ldap directly as the userdb. We'll see how it 
plays out.

.josh


Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Not to discount the SMP hypothesis, but do you possibly have a password
> database that uses uid's > 65535?
> 
> If there's some application in the chain that is assuming uid's should
> be a short, and another app in the chain assumes that uid's should be an
> int...  Then when mapping int to short, you might lose the upper bits -
> which should only matter for uid's >= 65536.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:14 -0800, Josh Burley wrote:
> 
>>We *are* on an SMP machine...
>>
>>Peter Franck wrote:
>>
>>>Josh´s problem report reminds me of other multi-CPU issues.
>>>Just a guess,
>>>Peter
>>



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