Hi, Been having a quick look through the 1.2x/2.x source code. Just a quick question on the pop3d and imapd - why does it fork? why not use a thread or select method instead?
Would of thought if it were to perhaps create a thread per request rather than a process it should faster and more efficient by reducing the overhead? http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/JAWS/research.html#adapt (I know that's aimed more towards webservers, but the theory/strategy still applies to concurrent connections.) Probably wouldn't much difference to low usage sites, but with hundreds/thousands of concurrent connections would probably make a fair difference? Any thoughts? Simon
