On 21.6.2012, at 11.44, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > El 20/06/12 12:05, Timo Sirainen escribió: >> >>> default_process_limit = 1000 >> >> Since you haven't enabled high-performance mode for imap-login processes >> and haven't otherwise changed the service imap-login settings, this >> means that you can have max. 1000 simultaneous IMAP SSL/TLS connections. >> > According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess > > Since one login process can handle only one connection, the service's > process_limit setting limits the number of users that can be logging in at > the same time (defaults to default_process_limit=100). > > I understood this as there can only be up to 100 (or 1000 in my case) > concurrently trying to log in, but once the user logs, the imap-login process > ends (starting corresponding imap processes) and another users could log in. > So there could be more than 100 users connected, but up to 100 trying to > connect. Am I wrong? > > If I am wrong, why in my system there is no imap-login processes (or > just a few) but a lot of imap?
Look at the next sentence also: SSL/TLS proxying processes are also counted here, so if you're using SSL/TLS you'll need to make sure this count is higher than the maximum number of users that can be logged in simultaneously. I guess you don't have many SSL/TLS connections.
