On 9.11.2004, at 13:24, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:09:49 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
Dovecot creates a new process for each PAM lookup, so it's pam_ldap that is being stuck for some reason.
Still, it's weird that dovecot-auth leaves zombie processes around. I found yesterday an update of libpam_ldap in the unstable branch of debian; installed and I got no complaint from the users since... crossing fingers.
Oh, I somehow missed the meaning of zombie word when answering :) Right, it shouldn't leave them. But I also don't see how it would.. It should get rid of them once every second. Unless the dovecot-auth process itself is stuck on something.
If you strace the dovecot-auth process, does it show calling waitpid() every second?