dbmail wrote:
The NCHILDREN will result one more processes
for example: NCHILDREN=2
root 4836 0.0 0.4 2364 796 ? S 12:22 0:00 dbmail-imapd
nobody 4837 0.0 0.4 2364 820 ? S 12:22 0:00 dbmail-imapd
nobody 4838 0.0 0.7 2496 1340 ? S 12:22 0:00 dbmail-imapd
nobody 4839 0.0 0.6 2496 1280 ? S 12:22 0:00 dbmail-imapd
there are 3+1 processes it should be 2+1 I think.
Actually no. It's ok as it is. Dbmail starts as root, forks, reads the config
and binds the socket, forks again, drops privileges and starts the server.
This leaves us with two processes: the 'root' process responsible for restarting
on SIGHUP or shutting down on SIGKILL etc, and 1 child responsible for
preforking the children that will do the actual clienthandling. Neither of these
first two processes handle clientconnects.
So NCHILDREN refers to the number of children that actually do handle client
connects, not the total number of processes created by the parent.
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