[Dovecot] Lost login process PID XXXXX

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 22:30 -0700, Patrick Linstruth wrote:
> Here's some additional information that might help.  These are the current
> running processes:
> 
> $ ps -ax | grep dovecot
>  2343  ??  Ss     0:02.99 dovecot
>  2344  ??  Ss     0:02.97 dovecot
>  2347  ??  S      0:02.17 dovecot-auth
>  2348  ??  S      0:02.15 dovecot-auth
>  7334  ??  Ss     0:12.98 dovecot
>  7335  ??  S      0:05.90 dovecot-auth
>  8090  ??  Ss     0:05.25 dovecot
>  8094  ??  S      0:03.73 dovecot-auth
>  8194  ??  Ss     0:02.49 dovecot
>  8197  ??  S      0:01.74 dovecot-auth
>  9381  ??  Ss     0:00.87 dovecot
>  9382  ??  Ss     0:00.86 dovecot
>  9385  ??  S      0:00.64 dovecot-auth
>  9386  ??  S      0:00.62 dovecot-auth
> 17247  ??  Ss     0:00.41 dovecot
> 17250  ??  Ss     0:01.69 dovecot
> 17252  ??  S      0:00.28 dovecot-auth
> 17253  ??  S      0:01.71 dovecot-auth

Why do you have so many dovecot and dovecot-auth processes? Are you
trying to run multiple Dovecot instances? There should be only one
"dovecot" named process.

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