[Dovecot] 487 imap-login processes - is this ok

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.4.2012, at 17.21, Götz Reinicke wrote:

> recently I checked our mailserver for some more tuning and optimizing
> and noticed, that currently I do have 487 imap-login processes and I'm
> asking myself if that's o.k.
> 
> We do have about 1.000 user in total and not everybody is currently
> logged in.
> 
> May be this is o.k. but if not, what might I check?


Normal in "high-security mode": http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess

Most of those 487 processes are probably handling SSL traffic.