[Dovecot] Can`t get over 1024 processes

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.9.2012, at 17.40, Tomáš Randa wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have configuration question. Running FreeBSD 9.0 / AMD64 / Dovecot 2.1.8 version and cannot get over 1024 processes. I`ve increased process_limit in imap and pop3 and still have messages in syslog like: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 89, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5).
> Did I forget to increase some other value? System values are higher - kern.maxprocperuid: 8192 and kern.maxproc: 12288

That message comes from the kernel. Dovecot doesn't use login.conf. You need to set ulimit -u manually (= in init.d script) before starting Dovecot.