Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Aug 15, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> If I understand Dovecot's auth caching, it will save DB lookups (or >> sequential passwd-file lookups, etc), but it will still need to spawn >> a new imap process for each connection the webmail does. >> >> With imapproxy, the process will be kept running for a couple minutes >> after the webmail disconnects that connection and will be reused if a >> new request is made in sequence. > > > Yes, but is it worth it to keep an extra daemon proxying all TCP > connetions to IMAP server just to save a some imap process creations?
Good question, only benchmarking could tell, and the results would probably vary between different machines, operating systems and architectures. > v2.0 hopefully allows this kind of "wait a couple of minutes before > dying" natively. That would be really nice. -- BOFH excuse #52: Smell from unhygienic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb