On 22.10.2007, at 22.55, Flannery, Andrew wrote:

The dovecot-auth process' VmRSS size grows by 4k per request and has a limit of 256megs.

The main dovecot-auth or dovecot-auth -w processes'?

Okay the question: In dovecot 1.1.0 beta3 I see that blocking=yes
is now on, no matter what. Has something been done to address potential
memory leaks in pam modules?

Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process.

This may

be useful if PAM plugins leak memory.

#auth_worker_max_request_count = 0