[Dovecot] Restarting dovecot-auth stops authentication

[Timo Sirainen]

On 21.12.2010, at 19.37, Attila Nagy wrote:

>>> service imap-login {
>>>  client_limit = 8
>> Why imap-login with this small client_limit? The default should be ok (1000).
> Because I think that Dovecot's processes block on IO and not just on distinct IO operations, but larger tasks, like opening a maildir with a lot of e-mails without indexes.

*-login processes do no disk I/O.

> Am I wrong? Or partly wrong, because it uses blocking IO, but it can multiplex them, so while one user struggles with the file system to build indexes of his maildir, an other client in the same process can happily do POP/IMAP stuff?
> The rationale is to spread IO (and users) amongst processes, because the OS can schedule them concurrently, but don't have too many processes, because that eats a lot of memory and other resources.

This applies to imap/pop3 service, and that's why only client_limit=1 works well with them for now.