Re: [Dovecot] number of auth process

2008-01-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 08:32 +0100, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: > hi there, > > what are exactly the differences between > > auth_worker_max_count = 30 Auth workers are used for "blocking lookups". With v1.0 that's mainly happening with MySQL. So the main dovecot-auth handles the authentication me

Re: [Dovecot] number of auth process

2008-01-02 Thread Gabriel Millerd
The understanding of the high performance server style that dovecot uses is key here. As well as how the various operating systems deal with their specific processes. I couldn't find a fast and easy wikipedia page to link to you, nor am I comfy with linking a specific page from http://httpd.apache.

[Dovecot] number of auth process

2008-01-01 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
hi there, what are exactly the differences between auth_worker_max_count = 30 and auth default { count = 1 } ? first are threads (for threaded auth methods) and second the number of process ?