[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1rc3 "Out of Memory" crashes from pop3-login?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:56 PM, richs at whidbey.net wrote:
> We recently began seeing server crashes in our cluster related to  
> "pop3-login", which is causing "oom-killer" to be invoked.  The  
> server only recovers after a reboot.

So oom-killer doesn't solve the issue? Then it's likely it has nothing  
to do with pop3-login, OOM killer just selects a bad target to kill  
(and Dovecot happily restarts a new pop3-login process) while the real  
memory-eating process stays alive. Can you check with ps what  
process(es) are eating all the memory?

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