[Dovecot] Dovecot pop3 locking up

[Timo Sirainen]

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.

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