On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Peter Evans wrote:
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> Dont use inetd, or tune your inetd service to allow for a lot
> more pop sessions being started.
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> xinetd is good, as is DJB's tcpserver.
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I used to use qpopper w/xinetd, but after a while (few weeks) xinetd RSS
would get up to like 50 meg. I guess it (xinetd) has a snowballing
memory leak somewhere.
So now i just run qpopper standalone and the system is happier memory
wise.
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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> I used to use tcpserver, because it was quite happy spawning
> 200+ / second which was close to our peak load, but the next
> version of the GOL.COM mail system uses exim/pop-proxy/qpopper
> and xinetd because its run by a linux drooly who refuses to
> use anything by DJB on principle.
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> Whatever cranks your tractor ...
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