[Dovecot] dovecot performance

Giorgenes Gelatti
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:25:54 -0000

2008/8/14 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> But there are even some theoretical problems with preforking. For example
> the most secure way to set up your users is to use a different UNIX UID for
> each user. So for preforking that means your preforked processes must run
as
> root until they receive the information about which UID they need to run
as.
> And the code running as root should be minimized..

True, but it's a common scenario to have thousands of users, in which
case they usually have all the same UID.

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