[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.  
> 
> We have a lot of limits set in the config file, and I've seen warnings for other limits, but not this one.
> 
> 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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