[Dovecot] pam_ldap.so memory leaks?

[Flannery, Andrew]

Thank you for the speedy response!

>> The dovecot-auth process' VmRSS size grows by 4k per request and has
a 
>> limit of 256megs.

> The main dovecot-auth or dovecot-auth -w processes'?

dovecot-auth -w is the culprit.

>> Okay the question: In dovecot 1.1.0 beta3 I see that blocking=yes is 
>> now on, no matter what. Has something been done to address potential 
>> memory leaks in pam modules?

> # Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process.  
> This may
> # be useful if PAM plugins leak memory.
> #auth_worker_max_request_count = 0

This looks promising, thanks!