MAXCHILDREN limits how many connection can be established
concurrently.
Because any imap connection requires one child. MAXCONNECTS
defines after
how many connections a child gets killed. If i understand it right,
one
dbmail process can get very big(memory), when you deliver a big
message. The
memory used by a process get's only freeed completly, when the process
terminates. This is what happens after MAXCONNECTS. At least i
think so...
:-)
I think memory is, and should be cleared after each connection is
closed, before starting to wait for a new connection.
Since today we encountered the maxconnects limit on our popserver,
which had setting 500 connections, it would be nice to have a setting
connect as much as you want, because setting the maxconnects to 2000
resolved the problem without breaking anything else.
