[Dovecot] imap-login processes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:47 -0400, Bryan Polk wrote:
> > It would help to know what these extra processes are doing. 
> Unfortunately
> > there's no simple way to do that.. Maybe writing a script that trusses 
> the
> > processes for a few seconds and then seeing what it shows?
> 
> To truss each imap-login I would need to write the script to execute 
> "truss imap-login" and put that in place of imap-login in the config file? 

That would probably work too, but I was thinking about getting a few
second snapshot using truss -p. So something like (untested):

for pid in `ps -ef|grep imap$|awk '{print $2}'`; do
  truss -o log.$pid -p $pid &
done
sleep 5
killall truss

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