dovecot/config processes one more time - which are safe to kill?

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Tue Jan 8 10:27:45 EET 2019


On 13/12/2018 10:18, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> The problem with dovecot/config processes never ending and spawning new
> one on each reload
> (https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2016-November/106058.html) is
> becoming a problem here:
> 
> # ps aux|grep dovecot/config|wc -l
> 206
> 
> That's a lot of wasted memory - dovecot/config processes ate over 30GB
> of ram on 64GB box.

If anyone else uses shutdown_clients = no and has the same problem here
is a script that needs to be run from cron and it kills old, unneeded
config processes.

Works fine here.

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )
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