Long Lived imapd processes

[Jerome M Berkman]

Whenever we reboot, it takes only about 15-20 minutes to get
to the same number of imapd processes as before the reboot.
I've never checked, but I suspect the clients just reconnect.
That requires re-authenticating, which uses a lot more resources
than responding to a NOOP every few minutes.  (Note - we are
using an ancient Cyrus derivative, not Cyrus itself).

	- Jerry

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Earl R Shannon wrote:
> 
> > The processes are using resources on a resource limited machine. We are
> > looking at all the ways we can reduce the load on the machine. Having a
> > client connected for a month and not reading mail is not productive for
> > anybody.
> 
> An imapd process that isn't doing anything other than answering a NOOP
> once every few minutes isn't costing you many resources (some minimal
> amount of swap space, maybe).
> 
> -Rob
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