[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.7 (8793036f6de8) seems to miss some defaults for vsz_limit

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Wed Nov 17 12:00:25 EET 2010


Am 17.11.2010 10:40, schrieb Robert Schetterer:
> Am 17.11.2010 10:14, schrieb Thomas Leuxner:
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> i think there can only be defaults if all parameters are default
>>> ( at a new clean install from scratch )
>>
>> These are unset defaults as far as I can tell. As with all defaults they
>> should work out of the box. They are *not* overriden by specific custom
>> values. Well, actually they are now, because of not being set in the first
>> instance.
> 
> hm i have i.e
> 
> # If you set service_count=0, you probably need to grow this.
>   #vsz_limit = 64M
> 
> 
> in 10-master.conf
> 
> so whatever there is/was a warning in some default conf having your eyes
> on this parameter
> 
> so i stay
> there can only be starting defaults at clean new setups
> and they might fail too, i.e if you have very small resources
> so give warning is the only chance i see
> 
> but no flame , i changed so much that i havent any idea whats now is
> default exactly
> 
>>
>>> why no use something like i.e default_vsz_limit = 256M ?
>>> instead of using seperate entries
>>
>> Personally I think this is a form of wasting resources. Why would one
>> allocate 256M to something that was previously set to 0B? Would it do
>> any good at all? It may be convient to do so, but it may not be very
>> effective...
> 
> sorry i have enough resources so i dont care
> unless i see a warning, basicly i trust in Timos code giving the right
> warnings
> 
> but good that Timo mostly answers if you ask detailed
> describe your resources and he or others might give recomands
> testing your setup with different setups might also help find out for
> you, whats best at your site
> 
> perhaps some basic resource examples should be in the wiki
> 
>>
>> Thomas
> 
> 
 looking here
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/
this seems to be fixed


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