[Dovecot] defunct processes

[LDB]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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. :)
> 

Understood .. Thanks ...

LDB