On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We are running dovecot 1.0.5 on a test server, with FreeBSD 6.2 > > (though I have noticed the same problem since dovecot versions in the > > 0.99 range). > > > > We don't have very many simultaneous pop/imap users, but we have a > > proliferation of pop3-login processes. > > > > Currently we have 128 such processes. We have 11 imap-login processes, > > but only a few actual imap processes running. > > > > Is this normal? Can we stop it? > > Do you have lots of login attempts? If you have more than 64 concurrent > POP3 login attempts, you'll get 128 pop3-login processes.
We don't have many concurrent login attempts, but we do have many in sequence, in the form of automatic mail checking by clients. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess explains more. I'll check this and report back anything I find. Thanks. Alan