Mercurial > dovecot > original-hg > dovecot-1.2
changeset 431:5392919ed5dd HEAD
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author | Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> |
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date | Tue, 15 Oct 2002 04:04:13 +0300 |
parents | b3073f5b1e37 |
children | 250a30e3cf70 |
files | doc/configuration.txt |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/configuration.txt Tue Oct 15 03:47:53 2002 +0300 +++ b/doc/configuration.txt Tue Oct 15 04:04:13 2002 +0300 @@ -89,14 +89,15 @@ COPY command can be made much faster with maildir by setting maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes. This is problematic only if something modifies the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. -I don't know any MUA which would modify any mail files directly. +I don't know any MUA which would modify any mail file directly. -Logins can be handled either fast, or securely. Doing it securely means +Logins can be handled either fast or securely. Doing it securely means creating a new login process for each connection instead of having only few processes handling multiple connections. The problem with sharing connections is that if a security hole is found, the attacker could hijack other peoples connections or steal their passwords if plaintext -authentication was used (even with SSL/TLS). +authentication was used (even with SSL/TLS). If you want to be fast, +set login_process_per_user = no. Dovecot's memory usage is very small. Almost all memory usage you see with ps/top is from mmap()ed files, meaning that operating system can drop any