dovecot - Jan 2014 - What's the parameter -w for dovecot-auth: dovecot -w

hello:
    
What's the parameter -w for dovecot-auth:   dovecot -w my service of
dovecot-auth always activing two: one is" dovecot-auth"   , the other
is" dovecot-auth -w" i don't know the diffevent between them      
amandy                                                                          
thanks!

On 1/6/2014 1:17 AM, ldaamandy wrote:
> What's the parameter -w for dovecot-auth: dovecot -w my service of
> dovecot-auth always activing two: one is" dovecot-auth", the
other
> is" dovecot-auth -w" i don't know the diffevent between them
According to the Dovecot 1.x wiki:

'dovecot-auth -w process is an "authentication worker" process.
It's
used only with some "blocking" authentication databases, such as
MySQL.'

http://wiki1.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot