[Dovecot] Out of memory errors

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Oct 10 06:44:22 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:32 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:
> Do these errors indicate a memory leak?  I see them in the logs a few times per day on each of our servers, running CVS dovecot-20060924...
> 
> Oct  8 22:21:30 mail38b dovecot: auth(default): block_alloc(): Out of memory
> Oct  8 22:21:30 mail38b dovecot: child 6391 (auth) returned error 83 (Out of memory)
> Oct  9 20:05:05 mail38b dovecot: auth(default): pool_system_realloc(): Out of memory
> Oct  9 20:05:05 mail38b dovecot: child 655 (auth) returned error 83 (Out of memory)

Could be. What passdb and userdb are you using? Are you using anything
else than plaintext auth?

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