I wonder how many IMAP processes are short lived enough to make a difference? I know at least on my servers they are fairly long running.
POP servers are another story.. Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Greenfield Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:48 PM To: Cyrus-Info; David Wright Subject: Re: imapd timeout Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:08:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Does cyrus perhaps "recycle" imapd processes rather than killing them and starting new ones? If so, what is the logic behind this? (Unix forking is remarkably fast, and starting fresh each time seems much safer/cleaner.) Cyrus does recycle processes. Unix forking is amazingly slow compared to not forking and on servers that receive many connections a second this performance tweak is vital. Larry
