On Sat, 23 May 2009, J wrote: > Looks like I may have been mistaken. I connected twice from the same > system, and I think what actually happened is that the one process was > reused. > > Because when I make one connection each from different systems, two > processes were still in the process table. Appears that if one process was > created for a system (IP?), then that one will be reused for that same > system (IP?), maybe.
> ...while the (non-disappearing) connections appear like: > > ./qpsmtpd-prefork [192.168.1.50 : testlaptop : 23:12:05 2009-05-23] It certainly appears that the processes (like above) get reused, but only for the IP address that previously connected to it. I put the box on the Internet for a while and I got several (obviously spammer) connections, and they each left their own process behind after disconnecting. If I get time today, I'll drop the total connections and see what happens when there are more connections than allowed - do the IP related processes die off so a new one can start with the new IP? (I find it a bit disconcerting having all these processes hanging around.) J.
