dovecot: master: Warning: Sent SIGKILL to 100 imap-login processes

[Sami Ketola]

> On 5 Oct 2017, at 22.16, absolutely_free at libero.it wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Dovecot 2.2.32 (dfbe293d4)
> 
> I noticed lots of messages like:
> 
> dovecot: master: Warning: Sent SIGKILL to 100 imap-login processes
> 
> in /var/log/maillog
> 
> I commented out "process_limit"
> 
> 
> service imap {
> # Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing files. You may need to increase this
> # limit if you have huge mailboxes.
> #vsz_limit = $default_vsz_limit
> 
> # Max. number of IMAP processes (connections)
> process_limit = 1024
> }
> 
> 
> but it seems that value doesn't change (still 100).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you very much!


So you just commented it out?

so then it’s using the default_process_limit:
# doveconf -d | grep default_process_limit
default_process_limit = 100

which is 100.

Sami