[Dovecot] Login process connection routing

Brandon Davidson brandond at uoregon.edu
Tue Jul 20 19:57:52 EEST 2010


Timo,

Just out of curiosity, how are incoming connections routed to login
processes when run with:
service imap-login { service_count = 0 }

I've been playing with this on our test director, and the process connection
counts look somewhat unbalanced. I'm wondering if there are any performance
issues with having a single process handle so many connections. It seems
fine (system load is actually lower than with service_count = 1), but I
thought I'd ask.

/usr/sbin/dovecot
 \_ dovecot/imap-login
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [1 connections (1 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [5 connections (5 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [1 connections (1 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [4 connections (4 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [1 connections (1 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [1 connections (1 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [315 connections (315 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [63 connections (63 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [12 connections (12 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [10 connections (10 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [2 connections (2 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [370 connections (370 TLS)]
 \_ dovecot/imap-login [24 connections (24 TLS)]

-Brad



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