[Dovecot] [sfs: dovecot-auth file descriptor usage]

[Odhiambo WASHINGTON]

* On 10/01/07 10:43 -0600, Steven F Siirila wrote:
| I am re-posting this message from last Friday, as I have seen no replies.
| It is critical that we address this problem, since until then we cannot
| put more than a few hundred users on our server.

I run a server with 8,000 accounts with dovecot rc15 all this time. A 
few hundred is not a big number, since it's less than 1000.


| If Dovecot-auth TRULY needs to keep open a file descriptor for every single
| login session, we will have to start looking at alternatives.

Are you threatening someone?


Seriously though, there must be something very broken in your OS, I 
think. I run FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE on about 40 systems, all with dovecot 
rc15 and each handling at least 100 accounts (bar for my big server with
8000+) and I don't hear complains...

Why don't you start by switching OS? ;)



-Wash

http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php

--
+======================================================================+
    |\      _,,,---,,_     | Odhiambo Washington    <wash at wananchi.com>
Zzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd.   www.wananchi.com
   |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9  +254 20 313922
  '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)     | GSM: +254 722 743223   +254 733 744121
+======================================================================+

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
		-- Ursula K. LeGuin