site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Burning a process per connection is a fairly standard thing to do. For example, apache. I was unaware that Mail was being a bad IMAP client. I suppose I should file a bug. --Amanda _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Steve Checkoway wrote: ... which is why non-forking servers like lighttpd routinely perform much, much better, especially for heavy loads, than apache. Mail's not a very good IMAP client in all sorts of ways :-). I'd file bugs. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com