Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot pop3 locking up

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 15:49 +0200, Neil Wilson wrote:

Everything works perfectly for a few days, and then eventually I end up with tons of what look to be "stale" processes.(I'm guessing roughly 300 like below.)

4204 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24722 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24723 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24724 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24921 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth

300 of dovecot-auth or pop3-login or both? Do you use PAM as passdb? And if yes, where does PAM authenticate from? It sounds like PAM processes are getting stuck.