[Dovecot] 1.2: Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:37 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> >From my log:
> Aug 10 12:23:39 postamt dovecot: IMAP(megow): Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
> 
> # wc -l subscriptions 
> 95 

That's irrelevant.

> # cat  /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
> 128
> 
> Why does 95 exceed 128?

You're using virtual users and you have over 128 connections running
IDLE command.

I suppose I should update that error message a bit.. This is the second
time this has been asked me today. Maybe:

"Inotify instance limit for user vmail (UID 1234) exceeded, disabling."