Imapd - more processes than maxchild

[Vladislav Kurz]

On Friday 01 of August 2014 00:49:58 Andrew Morgan wrote:
> 
> It's also possible that there is an IMAP client running wild, making
> hundreds of connections.  The output of "netstat -nt" might show you if
> there are a lot of connections from a single IP address.

Hi,

I suspect thunderbird from doing such things. My favourite detecion is:

sort /var/lib/cyrus/proc/* optionally piped to | uniq -c | sort -n

> If you really need to allow more connections, increase the maxchilds
> parameter.  Beware that you don't overload the server, either with too
> much I/O or not enough RAM available!  :)

How much RAM per imapd process is needed?

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Regards
        Vladislav Kurz