On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:That's not the issue. What seems to be different is the behavior once the number of processes has increased. In the meantime I have observed that eventually the number of processes *does* decrease again, but generally they seem to stick around much longer than they used to. I've looked at the source and don't see any reason why ... it doesn't bother me too much, though ;-)
At what rate are your messages arriving?
I seem to recall that we made a change at one point that affected IMAPd whereby connections that used to fatal() unnecessaraly no longer did (i.e. they exited when a connection was broken but not in the middle of a command). I can't find that we made a similar change to lmtpd, however..
Its entirely possible that the lmtpds are just getting reused often enough that they don't time out.
It seems that way, although the process spawning *feels* different somehow :-) That's not a very scientific observation, I know ... Anyway, the process count does vary after all, so I guess everything is OK.
Thanks, Sebastian -- Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (GebÃude 52), Zimmer 18 Zentrum fÃr angewandte Informatik - UniversitÃtsweiter Service RRZK UniversitÃt zu KÃln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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