[Dovecot] auth: out of memory

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2006-02-06 19:56:13 +0100, Branko F. Gračnar wrote:
> I just couldn't login to my dovecot imap (1.0-beta2). Dovecot authenticates 
> from mysql database.
> 
> Feb  6 19:47:33 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): 
> sql(damirh at noviforum.si): User query failed: MySQL client run out of memory
> Feb  6 19:47:52 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): ^GOut of 
> memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
> Feb  6 19:47:52 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): 
> sql(bfg at noviforum.si): User query failed: MySQL client run out of memory
> Feb  6 19:48:19 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): ^GOut of 
> memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
> Feb  6 19:48:19 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): 
> sql(bfg at noviforum.si): User query failed: MySQL client run out of memory
> Feb  6 19:48:19 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): ^GOut of 
> memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
> 
> 
> Restarting dovecot solved the problem. Ofcourse, machine didn't run into 
> memory problems.
> 
> Slackware 9.1, linux 2.6.

what was the memory usage of the auth process?
do you have any ulimits set for it?

darix

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