On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Brandon Handeland wrote: > I am currently running into a weird problem with pam-0.72-7 & QPopper > 3.02, and Qpopper 3.1.2. It appears when we have compiled Qpopper without > pam support, everything functions as it should. > When we compile Qpopper with PAM support, everytime a pop3 request is > initiated, it is easily 10 times the CPU load (usually around 80%). > Our Unix load figures are above 30 with the pam support in. Without the > pam support, it is usally around .6. > Has anyone seen this before? I've seen this before, but not since we stopped using pam_pwdb as the authentication module. $ cat /etc/pam.d/pop # qpopper auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so The above pam config file will put far less load on the system than one using pam_pwdb. HTH, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
