Re: [Dovecot] Throttling Logins

2007-03-21 Thread Sean Kamath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c is a nice tool to try stress testing logins. Use it something like: imaptest user=dummy password=something clients=100 - select=0 The issue is not to be able

Re: [Dovecot] Throttling Logins

2007-03-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:46 -0700, Sean Kamath wrote: > > Earlier today I was hit with 612 login attempts in 7 minutes. They > ramped up slowly, too. :-) > > They quickly hit the file descriptor limit. And then a login server > spawned and died so quickly that dovecot just died. > > My que

[Dovecot] Throttling Logins

2007-03-19 Thread Sean Kamath
Hi. Earlier today I was hit with 612 login attempts in 7 minutes. They ramped up slowly, too. :-) They quickly hit the file descriptor limit. And then a login server spawned and died so quickly that dovecot just died. My question is, is there a way to throttle the number of login conn