[Dovecot] Processes remaining

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 17:15 +0200, Andreas Kossack wrote:

> on my system ("AIX 6.1" 64bit) after "doveadm stop" there are some
> processes still alive:

Do you have shutdown_clients=yes (default)?

> After some minutes I can see less than before:
> 
>      root  6029330        1   0 16:54:20      -  0:00 dovecot/ssl-params
>      root  6553702        1   0 16:52:01      -  0:00 dovecot/log
>   dovecot 12189718        1   0 16:52:01      -  0:00 dovecot/anvil
> 
> But these seem to be permanent.

If you kill ssl-params, do the other two processes die too?

> What's wrong?

There's probably some problem with Dovecot detecting that process on the
other side of pipe has died. What does "dovecot --build-options" say?