On 8.6.2012, at 19.33, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Yes, but like the wiki page also says, it's not a good idea increase >> client_limit for imap/pop3 processes. > > depends on the usecase / workload > > having dovecot as proxy for other imap-backends and 1 process per connection > will heavily raise up process-count and memory-overhead while memory > may be needed for the imap-backend (like dbmail) and datanases > > process_limit = 15 > client_limit = 300 > > this way you can have 4500 proxy-connections and use most time > not more than 4-5 processes
Proxying is done by imap-login process, not imap process. For login processes there are different recommendations.
