Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Aug 15, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
If I understand Dovecot's auth caching, it will save DB lookups (or sequential passwd-file lookups, etc), but it will still need to spawn a new imap process for each connection the webmail does.
With imapproxy, the process will be kept running for a couple minutes after the webmail disconnects that connection and will be reused if a new request is made in sequence.
Yes, but is it worth it to keep an extra daemon proxying all TCP connetions to IMAP server just to save a some imap process creations?
Good question, only benchmarking could tell, and the results would probably vary between different machines, operating systems and architectures.
v2.0 hopefully allows this kind of "wait a couple of minutes before dying" natively.
That would be really nice.
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