[Dovecot] Imap segfault on login with version 2.0.8 & 2.0.11
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Sat Apr 9 01:18:22 EEST 2011
On 9.4.2011, at 1.01, Nick VonHollen wrote:
> When I converted the config file, I somehow set vsz_limit to 1k. The child process tries to load its core libraries, runs out of virtual memory, and is killed.
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> We have a lot of limits set in the config file, and I've seen warnings for other limits, but not this one.
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> Hopefully, someone else sees this and doesn't do the same thing. Would it make sense to raise some warnings for the vsz_limit itself? At least for some insanely low number like <= 1M?
There is such a warning! Unfortunately it's for numbers under 1 kB :) Yeah, I guess it could be safely increased quite a lot.
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