Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process.

23 Oct 2007


      Thank you for the speedy response!
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The dovecot-auth process' VmRSS size grows by 4k per request and has
a
limit of 256megs.
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The main dovecot-auth or dovecot-auth -w processes'?
dovecot-auth -w is the culprit.
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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?
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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
This looks promising, thanks!

Re: [Dovecot] pam_ldap.so memory leaks?

Flannery, Andrew

Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process.

be useful if PAM plugins leak memory.

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