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

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> 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.

Well, I thought it would affect THAT user only.
 
> > # cat  /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
> > 128
> > 
> > Why does 95 exceed 128?
> 
> You're using virtual users

No.

> and you have over 128 connections running IDLE command.

That user is the ONLY user getting this error. He's the one user with
the most subfolders.

> 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."

No, every user has his/her own UID :)

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