On 7 December 2008 16:30, Gordon Messmer wrote: > As I said before, MAXDAEMONS is used to prevent > resource exhaustion. That's exactly what happened to us last week. As I migrated more and more users from our old system to courier imap, the server quickly maxed out - mostlty thanks to thunderbird and the default concurrent connection count of 5. I temporarily fixed it by setting it to 2x the number of users.
> Setting it as high as I do may not prevent > intentional attacks, since an attacker could raise all of the services > to their max and use more than the available physical RAM. However, I'm > more concerned with not setting it so low that users have login > problems, as I believe that's more likely. Same as you, attacks are not a big concern in our infrastructure - although it's a point that I'll keep in mind. And thank you for the response guys. Cheers, /Khosrow
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