Long Lived imapd processes

[Rob Siemborski]

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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