Hi Timo,

Upgraded to 2.0.14 last night for the director-related features and I noticed an oddity in the logs:

Sep 28 09:53:21 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:53:56 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:54:23 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:55:07 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:55:24 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:56:08 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:56:25 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:57:10 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:57:26 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped

These warnings are only being printed out by the directors. Both the directors and imap/pop3 servers have init scripts with the following ulimits set in the start sections:

ulimit -s unlimited ulimit -n 30000 ulimit -u 30000

(We'd get alerts long before resource consumption became an issue)

I've been watching the established imap/pop3 connection count on both directors for the past hour and a half and despite these warnings, those counts have grown continuously.

The other weird thing is, according the configuration (attached), the ipc service has a client_limit of 0 by default, so we shouldn't be hitting a ceiling anyway, correct?

So are these false warnings or something to be concerned about?

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