[Dovecot] defunct processes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 07:55 -0400, LDB wrote:
> 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?

I don't remember that far back anymore (0.99.14 was released 1,5 years
ago), but I do remember that I haven't seen anyone complain about this
with 1.0rc releases. :)

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