dovecot - Jun 2012 - difference between client_limit and process_limit

Hi,

	What is the real difference between client and process limit? According 
to documentation (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#Service_limits):

client_limit: Maximum number of simultaneous client connections. If set 
to 0, default_client_limit is used instead.
process_limit: Maximum number of processes that can exist for this 
service. If set to 0, default_process_limit is used instead.

	But what does "client connection" exactly means? Is a user (login)?
Is
a user opens a few TCP connections (as many clients do) are they count 
as different connections?

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El 08/06/12 12:24, Angel L. Mateo escribi?:
> Hi,
>
> What is the real difference between client and process limit? According
> to documentation (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#Service_limits):
>
> client_limit: Maximum number of simultaneous client connections. If set
> to 0, default_client_limit is used instead.
> process_limit: Maximum number of processes that can exist for this
> service. If set to 0, default_process_limit is used instead.
>
> But what does "client connection" exactly means? Is a user
(login)? Is a
> user opens a few TCP connections (as many clients do) are they count as
> different connections?
>
	Sorry, it's friday, my mind is on the weekend :-(

	I understand that client_limit is how many connections (imap 
connections, for example) could be handle by one dovecot process, so if 
I have client_limit=2 and process_limit=1024, then I could 2048 
concurrent connections, right?

-- 
Angel L. Mateo Mart?nez
Secci?n de Telem?tica
?rea de Tecnolog?as de la Informaci?n       _o)
y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA)      / \\
http://www.um.es/atica                    _(___V
Tfo: 868887590
Fax: 868888337

El 13/06/12 14:39, Timo Sirainen escribi?:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:28 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Oh, right, service_count=1 is the default and that overrides
>> client_limit. Set it to 0.
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/4c31e450a867
>
	Thank you. This solved my problem.