[Dovecot] Possible mdbox corruption

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.1.2012, at 2.24, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

> I thought I had cleared out the corruption I had before - perhaps I was mistaken.  What steps should I take to help locate these issues?  Currently using 2.1rc1.  I see the following errors in my logs, including out of memory and message size issues (at 15:30):
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> Jan  4 05:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 10896 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it))
> Jan  4 06:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1 at domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory

The problem is clearly that index-worker's vsz_limit is too low. Increase it (or default_vsz_limit).