[Dovecot] defunct processes

[LDB]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 07:40 -0400, LDB wrote:
> 
>>>Are you using PAM? It probably has something to do with it. In any case
>>>since you're using 0.99 version, I'd just suggest upgrading to 1.0rc. It
>>>probably has already fixed the problem.
>>
>>Yes, I am using PAM. Why do you ask and what is your theory?
> 
> 
> Each PAM lookup creates a new dovecot-auth process, but I don't really
> know why they would be left in defunct-state. Those defunct processes
> are cleaned up when the main dovecot-auth process calls waitpid()
> function, but that's done every second..
> 

Understood .. thanks ..

Was this ever a problem with any of the prior releases?


Thanks,

LDB