26 Jun
2010
26 Jun
'10
6:02 a.m.
Steffen Kaiser put forth on 6/25/2010 7:01 AM:
- thunderbird opened too many simultaneous connections to the server. I do not remember where they would blocked or terminated, but in some cases thunderbird did not seem to detect this failure
This is a pet peeve of mine. Recent TB revs default to opening 5 IMAP connections. Some time ago I did more than cursory testing and found that TBird only uses 1 of the 5. The other 4 just sit there idle, adding clutter to the process list and eating a small amount of RAM. If it weren't for Linux' share memory management these processes would be eating a whole ton of RAM on busy Dovecot servers.
Anyway, since testing I force all my user TBird configs to a single IMAP connection. No problems.
-- Stan