On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jukka Salmi wrote: > why is it needed to shut down a process after it has handled a certain > amount of connections? I'm talking about the -U option to imapd, pop3d, > lmtpd, nntpd, etc.
It is not _needed_. But it is a defense against lurking bugs that leak memory, and againt some scenarios of memory corruption and attacks. It is just a safety net. If it is causing too much of a performance drawback for you, don't use it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html