[Dovecot] dovecot: child xxxx (login) returned error 83 (Out of memory)

[Timo Sirainen]

On May 28, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Eric Sammons wrote:

> Recently started receiving the error $SUBJECT.  Soon after a number of
> segfault errors are reported for pop3-login.  Based on my  
> configuration, I
> believe I am set up to receive core files; however, my  ulimit -c is  
> 0.

You won't get core dumps from login processes, because the kernel  
treats them as setuid-processes and also their current directory isn't  
writable. With recent versions you could add -D parameter to make this  
happen.

> Here is my dovecot.conf, any insight into the cause of this problem is
> greatly appreciated.

> login_process_size = 64

Increase this and the problem goes away.