[Dovecot] Major CPU spike for SSL parameters?

Todd Vierling tv at duh.org
Thu Jan 19 01:00:49 EET 2006


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Todd Vierling wrote:

> I went from a nightly of about 20051117 or so (about alpha4 generation) to
> 1.0beta1 yesterday, and dovecot is now spinning the CPU furiously apparently
> every ~10 minutes per:

> Jan 18 15:33:58 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed
> Jan 18 15:44:03 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed
> Jan 18 15:54:13 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed

After setting "ssl_parameters_regenerate" to the explicit value of 168, it's
still happening this often.  I now set it to 0 to disable regeneration for
the moment.

I wonder if there's bad arithmetic somewhere that is causing this process to
run much more often than it should...?

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