[BlueOnyx:09460] Re: worker busy

[Dudi Goldenberg]

Hi.

>Thanks Dudi,
>
>The lines are commented out, so I imagine there is a default.
>What do you suppose suddenly caused this (It was not happening prior to
>a couple of weeks ago)?
>
># Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute
># blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're
># automatically created and destroyed as needed.
>#auth_worker_max_count = 30

If that's a busy server (could also be under some ddos etc.) just try a larger number for the workers and see if this solves the issue.

ps aux | grep -c dovecot-auth will show how many auth workers are actually running.

Regards,

D.