Stan Hoeppner: > Based on purely visual non-scientific observation (top), it seems my smtpd > processes on my MX hang around much longer in (Debian) 2.5.5 than they did in > (Debian) 2.3.8. In 2.3.8 Master seemed to build them and tear them down very
Perhaps Debian changed this: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#max_idle The Postfix default is 100s. I don't really see why anyone would shorten this - that's a waste of CPU cycles. In particular, stopping Postfix daemons after 10s means that people don't have a clue about what they are doing. The fact that it's now increased to 30s confirms my suspicion. Technical correctness: the Postfix master does not terminate processes. Processes terminate voluntarily. Wietse
