[Dovecot] (imap) killed with signal 9 on Linux/OpenVZ VPS

[Adam Flott]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:13 -0500, Adam Flott wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 22:07 -0500, Adam Flott wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to get dovecot running on my VPS and the main imap process is
>>>> receiving a SIGKILL from what I presume to be the Linux Kernel and/or
>>>> OpenVZ. This happens after I login and my client(s) just sit their idling. The
>>>> mailbox is empty.
>>>
>>> See if it helps to set mail_process_size=0
>>>
>>
>> Still no luck.
>
> Does dmesg show anything? If not, I've no idea.

I switched to Xen and the problem seems to be solved. dovecot ran all night
with a few clients connected. Therefore, looks like VPS Link + OpenVZ
(2.6.18-ovz028stab039.1-smp) + dovecot (any version) is not an option.