noticed this in the log today, after about 11 warning IMAP appears to have not worked, 'service dovecot reload' got it going again

question: what to check/alter ?

# grep process_limit /var/log/maillog Aug 13 15:31:44 geko dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped ''' Aug 13 20:45:35 geko dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped

# doveconf -n | grep limit # # dovecot --version 2.1.1 # ps ax | grep imap | wc 109 546 4693 # ps ax | grep imap-login | wc 57 286 2619 # doveadm who | wc

 16     122    1531

centos 6, 20 virtual domains, 100 users

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