cyrus daemons: -U option

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> why is it needed to shut down a process after it has handled a certain
> amount of connections? I'm talking about the -U option to imapd, pop3d,
> lmtpd, nntpd, etc.

It is not _needed_.  But it is a defense against lurking bugs that leak
memory, and againt some scenarios of memory corruption and attacks.

It is just a safety net.  If it is causing too much of a performance
drawback for you, don't use it.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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