[Dovecot] dovecot-auth file descriptor usage

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jan 16 22:07:43 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 13:55 -0600, Steven F Siirila wrote:
> Mods were made (and appear in rc16) to close out the descriptor in question
> after using it during authentication (as I understand it).  However, I am
> still seeing plenty of file descriptors left open in rc16 (one per session).
> For example, on a Solaris 9 server with 9 IMAP connections open here is
> an lsof excerpt of dovecot-auth:

How about if you check those imap-login processes that are doing only
SSL proxying, do they also have the socket open?

I just tried myself, and dovecot-auth keeps only as many auth sockets
open as there are imap-login processes accepting new connections..

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