Michelle Konzack writes:

Hello Sam,

Am 2010-01-14 07:06:33, schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
Once instance of couriertcpd is running constantly. Each time a
connection is received, a forked child process runs some DNS
queries, then executes either courieresmtpd or couriertls (which
then executes courieresmtpd).

If you're proxying IMAP connections, the forked child process
continues to run after establishing a proxy connection, and copies
data between the two connections until they're gone.

Does this mean, if it open 40  "couriertcpd"  instances  I  get  a  load
average of 49?

No. The number of actual processes is not a factor. It's the number of running processes that determines the load. If you have 100 processes, and they're all sleeping the load will be 0.

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and no, thre was currently no Courier-Proxy config...  It  was  my  pure

I forgot -- the proxying is actually done in imaplogin, not couriertcpd.

<mail.tamay-dogan.net> and thee is nothing in the logs, which  tell  me,
WHAT has produced this load..

The higest Load Average was 78 with all 120 simultaneous connections

There must be something wrong... because how can someone run more  then
1000 customer mailboxes on one  machine?  I  mean  my  bigger  machines
allow 500 connections while my little Quad-Xeon oy 120.

The number of connections is not a factor. It's the number of actively running processes.


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