[Dovecot] Excessive dovecot-auth proceses

[Andrew Hutchings]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 02:03 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 23.5.2005, at 23:56, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > I may have missed something in the conf file but while using a standard
> > mysql auth method I'm finding many dovecot-auth processing sitting 
> > doing
> > nothing.  They grow to the extent that mysql runs out of connections
> > after a week.
> 
> Do you have more than auth_worker_max_count (default 30) of them? 
> Sounds like it's leaking them for some reason. It should create new 
> ones only when all of the existing ones are being used, and never more 
> than the configured amount. I'm not sure if the created processes die 
> ever though.

I have it commented out (so 30).  I had to restart them last night
anyway as they have been moved to a new facility.
I have adjusted it to 10 as 30 seems excessive for my needs (300 logins
per min per server).  I will let you know if it happens again.

Regards
Andrew
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