[Dovecot] Effect of "login_process_per_connection = no"?

Marcus Rueckert rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock.de
Mon May 29 21:42:11 EEST 2006


On 2006-05-27 13:29:49 -0700, Pete Slagle wrote:
> Using dovecot version v1.0.beta8 on FreeBSD 6.1_RELEASE with
> 
>    login_process_per_connection = no
> 
> in the dovecot.conf file, I still get a new imap process for each IMAP
> login.  That is, if a single user logs in five times, five imap
> processes are created.
> 
> The difference appears to be that with a "yes" setting each user login
> causes a new copy of the imap-login processes to be forked, which then
> creates the imap process for the connection and exits. With a "no"
> setting, one of the existing imap-login processes creates the imap
> process directly (and does not exit).
> 
> I am understanding the effect of this control setting correctly? Are
> there other actions or implications?

i think it refers to imap-login processes. not imap processes.

darix

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