[Dovecot] 1.0.5: many pop3-login processes?

[Alan Ferrency]

>
> I notice in the logs, that the number of imap-login Login: lines matches
> the number of Disconnect: lines in the log. For pop3-login, there are
> 111 Login: lines and only 8 Disconnect: lines.

Nevermind. A closer look at the logs shows this is a complete red
herring, the logs are unrelated.

Still digging.

Alan

> Thanks!
> Alan Ferrency
> pair Networks, Inc.
> alan at pair.com
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
> > > We are running dovecot 1.0.5 on a test server, with FreeBSD 6.2
> > > (though I have noticed the same problem since dovecot versions in the
> > > 0.99 range).
> > >
> > > We don't have very many simultaneous pop/imap users, but we have a
> > > proliferation of pop3-login processes.
> > >
> > > Currently we have 128 such processes. We have 11 imap-login processes,
> > > but only a few actual imap processes running.
> > >
> > > Is this normal?  Can we stop it?
> >
> > Do you have lots of login attempts? If you have more than 64 concurrent
> > POP3 login attempts, you'll get 128 pop3-login processes.
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess explains more.
> >
> >
>