[Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> If I understand Dovecot's auth caching, it will save DB lookups (or
>> sequential passwd-file lookups, etc), but it will still need to spawn
>> a new imap process for each connection the webmail does.
>>
>> With imapproxy, the process will be kept running for a couple minutes
>> after the webmail disconnects that connection and will be reused if a
>> new request is made in sequence.
>
>
> Yes, but is it worth it to keep an extra daemon proxying all TCP
> connetions to IMAP server just to save a some imap process creations?

Good question, only benchmarking could tell, and the results would
probably vary between different machines, operating systems and
architectures.

> v2.0 hopefully allows this kind of "wait a couple of minutes before
> dying" natively.

That would be really nice.

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