[Dovecot] 1.0.5: many pop3-login processes?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

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