hi, withe the latest cvs (and a few days ago) I've got a lot's of such process on the maiul server (and the number of such processes just growing:-(((). anyway the login problem disapear as I use dovecot as pam module name (both for impa and pop3). ------------------------------------------ root 18923 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18925 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18939 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18942 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18943 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18945 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18947 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18950 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login dovecot 18953 0.3 0.1 3424 1488 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18954 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] ------------------------------------------ -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
hi, withe the latest cvs (and a few days ago) I've got a lot's of such process on the maiul server (and the number of such processes just growing:-(((). anyway the login problem disapear as I use dovecot as pam module name (both for impa and pop3). ------------------------------------------ root 18923 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18925 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18939 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18942 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18943 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18945 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18947 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18950 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login dovecot 18953 0.3 0.1 3424 1488 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18954 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] ------------------------------------------ -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:38, Farkas Levente wrote:> hi, > withe the latest cvs (and a few days ago) I've got a lot's of such > process on the maiul server (and the number of such processes just > growing:-(((). > anyway the login problem disapear as I use dovecot as pam module name > (both for impa and pop3). > ------------------------------------------ > root 18923 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 > [dovecot-auth <defunct>]Nowadays dovecot-auth creates a new process for every PAM check. Problem is that those processes were wait()ed out only one per second. Fixed it now so that it checks all of them once in a second. So you'll still see them for a while, but they should die out soon.
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