[Dovecot] pop3-login process leakage

Clive Jones Clive.Jones+nospam+procontrol.fi at meridian.co.uk
Fri Nov 21 12:54:04 EET 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:24, Clive Jones wrote:
> Looks like this process hasn't even accepted a pop3 connection yet.. Do
> they all do this?

It seems there are a tiny handful of live, working instances (which I
don't want to touch, since they represent instances being used by real
clients that I don't want to degrade service for) and many hundreds of
old ones left lying around. Those all look essentially similar, though
I must admit I've not checked every single one of them. (-8

> Ask these too:
>
> p closing_down

$1 = 1

> p process_per_connection

$2 = 1

> p ssl_proxies->nodes_count

Error accessing memory address 0x10: Invalid argument.
(gdb) p ssl_proxies
$3 = (struct hash_table *) 0x0

> p io_master

$4 = (struct io *) 0x151e0
(gdb) p *io_master
$5 = {next = 0x0, fd = 3, condition = 1, destroyed = 0, 
  callback = 0x4c30 <master_input>, context = 0x0}

> And have you changed login_processes_count, login_max_processes_count or
> login_max_logging_users settings?

No - they've been left at the default.

Regards,

--Clive.




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