IMAP hibernate and scalability in general

[Timo Sirainen]

On 6 Apr 2017, at 9.56, Christian Balzer <chibi at gol.com> wrote:
> 
>> For no particular reason besides wanting to start conservatively, we've got
>> client_limit set to 50 on the hibernate procs (with 1100 total hibernated
>> connections on the box I'm looking at). At only a little over a meg each,
>> I'm fine with those extra processes.
>> 
> Yeah, but 50 would be a tad too conservative for our purposes here.
> I'll keep an eye on it and see how it goes, first checkpoint would be at
> 1k hibernated sessions. ^_^

imap-hibernate processes are similar to imap-login processes in that they should be able to handle thousands or even tens of thousands of connections per process.