[Dovecot] What's the parameter -w for dovecot-auth: dovecot -w

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 1/6/2014 1:17 AM, ldaamandy wrote:
> What's the parameter -w for dovecot-auth: dovecot -w my service of
> dovecot-auth always activing two: one is" dovecot-auth", the other
> is" dovecot-auth -w" i don't know the diffevent between them

According to the Dovecot 1.x wiki:

'dovecot-auth -w process is an "authentication worker" process. It's 
used only with some "blocking" authentication databases, such as MySQL.'

http://wiki1.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot