Jose,
Thank you for your reply. Makes me feel better everything is working properly and resources aren't being wasted. Thank you!
Rodman
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Celestino" japc@co.sapo.pt To: "Rodman Frowert" rodman@thefrowerts.com Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Lots of pop3-logins
On Qui, 2009-06-25 at 09:07 -0500, Rodman Frowert wrote:
Hello,
Doing a "ps aux" on my Slackware box, I have approx 100 PID's of "pop3-login's going on. This is a production mail server, but it is getting VERY low traffic. In fact, only 3 people can "pop3" into it. I've check their e-mail clients, and they are not checking mail any more often than every 5 minutes.
This is a new installation and I've had the server up and running since Sunday. If it matters, I'm using Postfix for the MTA and using the Dovecot SASL library to AUTH SMTP.
Is this a cause for concern? Why does Dovecot need this many processes?
Because dovecot preforks the *-login processes to speed-up the login.
No need to worry.
-- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.