Hi,

On one of my dovecot servers, i've got a limit problem... and I'm a little confused about which knobs I should adjust to solve it.

I've been getting both of these:

Error: net_connect_unix(imap) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable - http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SocketUnavailableess

This one caused me to go read that wiki page, but none of those seem to apply to me:

. i'm running 2.2.9 . i dont have service imap { client_limit }, although I do have service auth ( client_limit = 1024 } . my dovecot/auth process shows: dovecot/auth [91 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb] . it doesn't appear the master process is using very much cpu (in fact the system is mostly low load in general) . I have service_count = 0 set for imap-login for the 'high performance mode'

dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap): process_limit (2560) reached, client connections are being dropped

The second is because I have process_limit of 2560 for the imap service... I can raise that to 4096, but I suspect there are other limits I need to juggle?

Thanks a lot for any suggestions!

I have ulimit -n 2048 set for the dovecot processes (in /etc/default/dovecot) and the following is my dovecot -n:

# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf auth_verbose = yes default_process_limit = 256 default_vsz_limit = 512 M dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 8 first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_uid = 8 listen = * login_greeting = howdy, ready. mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/srv/dovecot_indexes/%d/%1n/%n mail_plugins = expire quota zlib maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . } namespace { alias_for = hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { antispam_allow_append_to_spam = yes antispam_backend = pipe antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_pipe_program = /usr/local/bin/train_spam antispam_pipe_program_args = -d;10.0.1.109 antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = ham antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = spam antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /var/tmp antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = SPAM antispam_trash_pattern = trash;Trash;Deleted * expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Spam expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = dict:Your mail quota::proxy::quota quota_rule = *:bytes=100663296 quota_rule2 = Trash:bytes=+20%% quota_rule3 = Spam:bytes=+10%% quota_rule4 = INBOX.Trash:bytes=+20%% quota_rule5 = INBOX.Spam:bytes=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/after.sieve sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = " imap pop3" service anvil { unix_listener anvil { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = root } } service auth { client_limit = 1024 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0600 user = mail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = mail mode = 0600 user = mail } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/postlogin_imap } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 4096 } service pop3-login { process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } service pop3-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/postlogin_pop } service pop3 { executable = pop3 pop3-postlogin } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = mail } } ssl_cert = </etc/certs/wildcard/cert.pem ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:-ADH:-aNULL ssl_key = </etc/certs/wildcard/key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = expire quota zlib sieve plugin { quota_exceeded_message = Sorry, your message cannot be delivered to that person because their mailbox is full. If you can contact them another way, you may wish to tell them of this problem. quota_rule7 = INBOX:bytes=+10%% } } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = expire quota zlib imap_quota imap_zlib antispam plugin { quota_exceeded_message = You are over quota. To avoid losing mail, immediately empty your Trash and Sent folders and delete emails with large attachments. } } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = expire quota zlib pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %g }