DOVEADM-PROCESS-STATUS(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-PROCESS-STATUS(1)
NAME
doveadm-process-status - Show information about dovecot processes
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] process status [service [...]]
DESCRIPTION
doveadm process status produces a table with a line for each process,
containing the following details:
name
the name of the process
pid
the pid of the process
available_count
the number of further clients that can connect to the process
total_count
the number of connected clients
idle_start
timestamp when the process entered the idle status, 0 if active
last_status_update
timestamp of the latest update from the process
last_kill_sent
timestamp of the latest SIGINT signal sent to the process
GLOBAL OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1)
-D
Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-O
Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_stor-
age_version setting defaults to the latest version, but can be over-
ridden with
-k
Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment
setting.
-v
Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
-i instance-name
If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on
this instance name.
See instance_name setting for more information.
-c config-file
Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first
reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dove-
cot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance
running compatible version.
-o setting=value
Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override mul-
tiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.
-f formatter
Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported format-
ters are:
flow
prints each line with key=value pairs.
pager
prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records
with form feed character (^L).
tab
prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.
table
prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.
ARGUMENTS
service (optional)
Filters the processes according to the specified service or ser-
vices. By default, all dovecot processes are listed.
EXAMPLES
doveadm process status
name pid available_count total_count idle_start last_status_update last_kill_sent
stats 132400 999 5 0 1685365436 0
log 132356 971 29 0 1685352909 0
config 132357 999 6 0 1685365436 0
anvil 132355 1000 0 1685352908 1685352908 0
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at:
https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1), doveadm-service-status(1)
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