[Bug 503008] Re: Dovecot-auth doesn't close sockets

[Gaylord Holder]

so if I set
auth_worker_max_request_count = 5

dovecot-auth will do 5 authorization lookup and exit, spawning a new 
dovecat-auth process?

Any recommendations on the count?

-Gaylord


Chuck Short wrote:
>>From http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM#head-
> 71368e6eb385969ff27fcda066555b9c05822c09:
> 
> Limiting the number of PAM lookups
> 
> Dovecot v1.1+ or v1.0 with blocking=yes enabled uses auth worker
> processes to do PAM lookups. Usually PAM is used to do only a single
> lookup in a process, so this may cause memory leaks in PAM plugins or
> maybe other problems. If you notice that PAM authentication stops
> working after some time, you can limit the number of lookups done by the
> auth worker process before it dies:
> 
> # v1.1+: Set to non-zero to limit the number of lookups
> auth_worker_max_request_count = 0
> 
> Note that this applies to all lookups, not just PAM lookups. So for
> example if you've configured Dovecot to use both PAM and MySQL, both of
> the lookups are done in the same auth worker processes and both of them
> are counted as requests.
> 
> ** Changed in: dovecot (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>

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Dovecot-auth doesn't close sockets
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503008
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