Long Lived imapd processes

Lawrence Greenfield leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Apr 15 18:44:57 EDT 2003


   Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:34:35 -0400
   From: twk <twk at ncsu.edu>
[...]
   So now if we assume that a process is costing me resources that I wish 
   to recover, what is the right way to terminate it?

As long as a process is actively connected to a connection, you can
send it a SIGTERM (standard kill) and it will terminate without
hurting anything.

Larry





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