[Dovecot] Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
Adrian Stoica
adrian.stoica at dacris.net
Thu Mar 31 10:47:37 EEST 2011
Thank you very much,
it's look so simple when you explain.
On 31/03/2011 9:54 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 09:41 +0300, Adrian Stoica wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I allready have set 256 on max_user_instances , and in the log i keep
>> seeing
>> Mar 28 10:08:44 mail dovecot: imap(some.username): Warning: Inotify
>> instance limit for user 98 (UID vmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase
>> /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
> Note that kernel only sees vmail as the user for everyone.
>
>> What can i do to resolve this issue ?
> Increase it more!
>
>> service imap {
>> process_limit = 2048
> You can have a maximum of 2048 IMAP connections and every one of them
> could be IDLEing and using one inotify instance. So set it to 2048.
>
>
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