On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Bruce Bodger wrote:
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
I will be deploying Dovecot on OS X shortly. I am looking for
clarification on the limits imposed by OS X and sysctl
[kern.maxproc]. I understand that it is defaulting to 532, but
can be raised to 2500. I believe the OS uses around 100 or so,
plus I will have other processes and shells at times.Which version of OS X? 10.4 or 10.5 ? Server or client ? It
matters.My current target for deployment is a Dual 2.0 PPC G5, running OS X
10.5 client. Thank you.From http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#proc_limit
I would presume relevant to Dovecot as well:
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Tuning the number of processes on the system
MacOS X will run out of process slots when you increase Postfixprocess limits. The following works with OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.5.
MacOS X kernel parameters can be specified in /etc/sysctl.conf. /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxproc=2048 kern.maxprocperuid=2048 Unfortunately these can't simply be set on the fly with "sysctl-w". You also have to set the following in /etc/launchd.conf so that
the root user after boot will have the right process limit (2048).
Otherwise you have to always run ulimit -u 2048 as root, then start
a user shell, and then start processes for things to take effect./etc/launchd.conf: limit maxproc 2048 Once these are in place, reboot the system. After that, thelimits will stay in place.
Hope it helps,
Thanks, I have been looking at those adjustments. My concern, is that
if Dovecot uses a process per imap or pop connection, 2048 is not
nearly enough for any significant email system.
Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *