[Dovecot] Bad imap!

[doug at dovecot.con.com]

I get a report of 2698352 from du -k on this particular Maildir.  I'm not 
sure if that's considered "large" for private mailboxes.

What would be a good setting?  And is there a good way to rebuild all the 
indices?

Thanks,

Doug


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 9.3.2005, at 20:52, doug at dovecot.con.com wrote:
>
>> Mar  9 10:50:06 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): Growing pool 
>> 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 524288
>> Mar  9 10:50:06 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): imap in malloc(): error: 
>> allocation failed
>> Mar  9 10:50:06 aurora dovecot: child 28235 (imap) killed with signal 6
>
> How big is your maildir?
>
> Raising mail_process_size setting probably helps, although you'd have to have 
> quite a large maildir to go above the default 256MB.. Unless something got 
> corrupted (indexes?) and tries to allocate too much memory because of it. I 
> don't think that should ever happen, though..
>
>