The understanding of the high performance server style that dovecot uses is key here. As well as how the various operating systems deal with their specific processes. I couldn't find a fast and easy wikipedia page to link to you, nor am I comfy with linking a specific page from http://httpd.apache.org and pining dovecot as 'it works like this', but i am sure there is a solid apache parallel to one of the apache2.0 types that would work well to describe dovecot and handling the lda/imap/pop stuff.
On Jan 2, 2008 1:32 AM, Jorge Salamero Sanz bencer@cauterized.net wrote:
hi there,
what are exactly the differences between
auth_worker_max_count = 30
# Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute # blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30
and
auth default { count = 1 }
# Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1
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