Re: [HACKERS] 'idle' processes in v6.5?

On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:22:13AM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > > > ... under a Linux system ...
> > >               ^^^^^
> > > Ah, finally seen the light...
> > > You didn't expect _that_ to go unnoticed, did you?
> > I'm getting paid *well* to put up with it :)
> 
> Well, that story will work for a while...
> 
> > > Yes, "nobody" *is* using the system. You sure you don't have a web
> > > server or something? Anything else running as "nobody"?
> > Ya, but no connections through it yet...does PHP auto-open connections to
> > the backend as a sort of cache/pool?
> 
> afaik, yes. Haven't run it myself though. I imagine that there are
> tunable parameters for that sort of thing.

No, no auto-open connections. From the database name (imp), I
would guess that you are running the IMAP web frontend named IMP
which is using persistent connections to the database - these
aren't closed automatically, so they hang around idle.

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                           Sascha Schumann                                Consultant