> > 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.
Nevermind. A closer look at the logs shows this is a complete red herring, the logs are unrelated. Still digging. Alan > 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. > > > > >