Hello,
i have a problem with the process_limit configuration.
Occasionally, it happens that the dovecot.log shows this line: master: Warning: service(imap): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped
So I checked, the process number, with the command: ps auxwww | grep imap | grep -v login | wc -l and it shows 1024.
Then, i edited the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf and set the line process_limit = 1500
I checked if the dovecot had accepted the change with the command doveconf -n | grep process_limit and it shows process_limit = 1500
But it is dropping the connections when they reach 1024 anyway, the configuration parameter is totally ignored.
Can anyone help? Am I editing the right parameter?
thanks in advance
Fabio Ferrari
P.S. The version of the dovecot is dovecot-2.0.1-1_118.el5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga).