random mmap_anon Cannot allocate memory in log

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Wed Dec 14 07:49:23 UTC 2016



On 14.12.2016 02:53, Ricardo Branco wrote:
> I am getting lots of these error messages in the log file, any idea why?
>
> vsz_limit = 512M
>
> Dec 14 00:50:12 lmtp(it at wenn.com)(it at wenn.com): Error:
> mmap_anon(211079168) failed: Cannot allocate memory
>

You are probably running out of memory on the process. mmap_anon only
shows how much it was trying to allocate (201 megs), not total VSZ size.

Aki


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