[Dovecot] Resource temporarily unavailable - solved

karpi karpi.lists at email.cz
Sat Oct 27 20:51:59 EEST 2007


Thank you Timo, that's the ticket!
I was running too much processess (>300) so i shut down some consuming
applications, and dovecot runs ok. Now i will tune my system setting in
/etc/security/limits.conf

                                                 thanks again.. 


27/10/07 17:11, tss at iki.fi napsal(a):
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:31 +0200, karpi.lists at email.cz wrote:
> > Oct 27 11:20:51 alnagon dovecot: IMAP(karpi): setuid(1000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> setuid(2) says:
> 
>        EAGAIN The uid does not match the current uid and  uid  brings  process
>               over its RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit.
> 
> So you've somewhere limited the number of processes for users. Debian
> has them in /etc/security/limits.conf. I'm not exactly sure what reads
> that file and how those limits are passed to kernel.
> 




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