Long Lived imapd processes

[twk]

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).
> 

You are assuming that these old processes are only answering NOOPs. What 
if they are checking every folder for mail every 5 minutes? every 
minute? every 30 seconds? (yes, I've seen that).

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?

Thanks,
Tom


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