Hello, > Do you have lots of login attempts? If you have more than 64 concurrent > POP3 login attempts, you'll get 128 pop3-login processes. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess explains more.
I finally got a chance to check this out, and it does not seem to explain what's going on with my system. On this particular server we have exactly 2 different users who log in via POP, and they seem to be set up to log in automatically once every 10 minutes. imap-login process count is reasonable: there are 11 processes running and it doesn't seem to increase. pop3-login is the issue. I notice in the logs, that the number of imap-login Login: lines matches the number of Disconnect: lines in the log. For pop3-login, there are 111 Login: lines and only 8 Disconnect: lines. However, there are no pop3 processes currently running, as far as I can tell. So this seems like it may be related to a misbehaving POP client, but I'd expect the pop3-login processes to die off anyway. I'm using the default login_* settings. Any more insight on this? Thanks! Alan Ferrency pair Networks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote: > > 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. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess explains more. > >