[Dovecot] Fastest restart of dovecot after upgrade: HOW?:

2010-01-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
I'm running dovecot under runit: #!/bin/sh echo '/var/core/%p' /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern ulimit -n 8096 ulimit -c unlimited exec /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F (that way, together with incron, I can automatically generate the coredumps I'm posting all the time) If I apply a patch and

Re: [Dovecot] Fastest restart of dovecot after upgrade: HOW?:

2010-01-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 21.1.2010, at 16.35, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Which part of the process structure can be killed and takes all it's children with it? ├─runsvdir─┬─runsv───ntpd │ ├─runsv─┬─dovecot─┬─2*[dovecot-auth] │ │ │ ├─1203*[imap] │ │ │

Re: [Dovecot] Fastest restart of dovecot after upgrade: HOW?:

2010-01-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: If you set shutdown_clients=yes. Although even with =no it should stop listening. shutdown_clients=yes is the default? I think it is :) I guess there can be bugs.. But in general the processes should notice immediately that master died, and immediately close