Re: [Dovecot] Resource temporarily unavailable - solved

Thank you Timo, that's the ticket! I was running too much processess (>300) so i shut down some consuming applications, and dovecot runs ok. Now i will tune my system setting in /etc/security/limits.conf

                                             thanks again.. 

27/10/07 17:11, tss@iki.fi napsal(a):

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:31 +0200, karpi.lists@email.cz wrote:

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Oct 27 11:20:51 alnagon dovecot: IMAP(karpi): setuid(1000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

setuid(2) says:

   EAGAIN The uid does not match the current uid and  uid  brings  process
          over its RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit.

So you've somewhere limited the number of processes for users. Debian has them in /etc/security/limits.conf. I'm not exactly sure what reads that file and how those limits are passed to kernel.