Client Limit reached in Dovecot

Daniel Tröder troeder at univention.de
Tue Jul 21 09:35:18 UTC 2015


Hallo :)

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Am 21.07.2015 um 11:26 schrieb Chandran Manikandan:
> Dear Daniel,
> Thanks for your kind response. As per your above command got below
> result. but i couldn't see below settings are local.conf,10-master.conf
> or toaster.conf. Where it's retrieved.
> default_process_limit=100
> default_client_limit=1000
> default_vsz_limit=256 M
> service/imap/process_limit=1024
> service/imap/client_limit=1
> service/imap/service_count=1
> service/imap/vsz_limit=18446744073709551615 B
> service/imap-login/process_limit=0
> service/imap-login/client_limit=0
> service/imap-login/service_count=1
> service/imap-login/vsz_limit=18446744073709551615 B

My guess is, that service/imap-login/process_limit=0 disables the
setting and then default_process_limit=100 applies.

As to where default_process_limit=100 comes from… try:
grep -r default_process_limit /etc/dovecot

Greeting
Daniel

> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Tröder <troeder at univention.de
> <mailto:troeder at univention.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 21.07.2015 um 10:35 schrieb Chandran Manikandan:
>     > Dear Friends,
>     > I have faced below issues since two weeks to till now. Could anyone help me
>     > to rectify this issue.
>     >
>     > Below message retrieve from logs and getting disconnection from Outlook and
>     > other email clients.
>     >
>     > Error Message
>     >
>     > Jul 20 10:33:35 master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100)
>     > reached, client connections are being dropped
>     >
>     > My local.conf from dovecot folder
>     >
>     > protocol imap {
>     >   imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail"
>     >   mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>     >    default_process_limit = 300
>     > }
>     This should be just "process_limit" without "default". But it's
>     unnecessary, as you set globally default_process_limit.
> 
>     > 10-master.conf
>     >
>     > default_process_limit = 300
>     > default_client_limit = 1000
>     >
>     > service imap-login {
>     >   inet_listener imap {
>     >     # process_limit = 15
>     >     # client_limit = 300
>     >     #port = 143
>     >   }
>     It is the "imap-login" process_limit that is reached. With the set
>     default_process_limit=300 this shouldn't happen. So maybe there is some
>     setting somewhere else, that is not shown. Please supply the output of:
> 
>     doveconf -S | egrep '(default|imap/|imap-login).*(limit|service_count)'
> 
>     Greetings
>     Daniel Tröder
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> *Thanks,*
> *Manikandan.C*
> *System Administrator*

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