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

[Marc Perkel]

Adam Flott wrote:
> 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.
>
For what it's worth I'm running Dovecot under OpenVZ without problems. 
But I'm running a much newer kernel.