Timo wrote:
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:48, Christian Balzer wrote: [exclusive fcntl() lock for index file ...]
Right. That's one annoying thing with 0.99.10 index code, slow readers will block others from accessing the mailbox. There's not much you can do except disable indexes, which would lose cached message sizes and slow down POP3 a lot.
Not worth the hit given the far smaller number of "victims" compared to the qpopper lock.
The default timeout it 5 minutes already I think, so I'm not sure if growing it would help much.
If anything I might configure it lower, since most clients will have given up waiting for a response from the server after 5 minutes anyway. ;)
Regards and thanks for the insight,
Christian Balzer
Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/