On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:18 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
I expect this is the reality of the situation: some port-scanner or
something somewhere is occasionally hitting the server enough to
increase the pop3-login process count, but nothing ever uses them
after that.
The processes aren't
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:36 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
On this particular server we have exactly 2 different users who log in
via POP, and they seem to be set up to log in automatically once every
10 minutes.
imap-login process count is
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:36 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
On this particular server we have exactly 2 different users who log in
via POP, and they seem to be set up to log in automatically once every
10 minutes.
imap-login process count is reasonable: there are 11 processes running
and it
Hello,
Do you have lots of login attempts? If you have more than 64 concurrent
POP3 login attempts, you'll get 128 pop3-login processes.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess explains more.
I finally got a chance to check this out, and it does not seem to
explain what's going on with my
I notice in the logs, that the number of imap-login Login: lines matches
the number of Disconnect: lines in the log. For pop3-login, there are
111 Login: lines and only 8 Disconnect: lines.
Nevermind. A closer look at the logs shows this is a complete red
herring, the logs are unrelated.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
Hello,
We are running dovecot 1.0.5 on a test server, with FreeBSD 6.2
(though I have noticed the same problem since dovecot versions in the
0.99 range).
We don't have very many
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Ferrency wrote:
Hello,
We are running dovecot 1.0.5 on a test server, with FreeBSD 6.2
(though I have noticed the same problem since dovecot versions in the
0.99 range).
We don't have very many simultaneous pop/imap users, but we have a
Hello,
We are running dovecot 1.0.5 on a test server, with FreeBSD 6.2
(though I have noticed the same problem since dovecot versions in the
0.99 range).
We don't have very many simultaneous pop/imap users, but we have a
proliferation of pop3-login processes.
Currently we have 128 such
