[Dovecot] child xxxxx (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory)
Hi list,
Jul 17 12:15:10 seamus dovecot: IMAP(someone@somehost.org): block_alloc(): Out of memory Jul 17 12:15:10 seamus dovecot: child 26181 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory)
I found those two entries in the logs this morning. The system has ample free memory. What's going on?
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On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 13:51 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Hi list,
Jul 17 12:15:10 seamus dovecot: IMAP(someone@somehost.org): block_alloc(): Out of memory Jul 17 12:15:10 seamus dovecot: child 26181 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory)
I found those two entries in the logs this morning. The system has ample free memory. What's going on?
If you have huge mailboxes, increase mail_process_size setting or set it to zero.
also sprach Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi [2008.07.17.1355 +0200]:
I found those two entries in the logs this morning. The system has ample free memory. What's going on?
If you have huge mailboxes, increase mail_process_size setting or set it to zero.
The mailbox in question is 137Mb in size, according to du. The mail_process_size default seems to be 256, according to the comment in the configuration. Is that correct? What's the default?
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On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 14:52 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi [2008.07.17.1355 +0200]:
I found those two entries in the logs this morning. The system has ample free memory. What's going on?
If you have huge mailboxes, increase mail_process_size setting or set it to zero.
The mailbox in question is 137Mb in size, according to du.
More important is the number of messages (and especially dovecot.index.cache file's size). But 137 MB doesn't sound like much.
The mail_process_size default seems to be 256, according to the comment in the configuration. Is that correct? What's the default?
256 is the default and it should be enough for pretty large mailboxes.
v1.1 logs a raw backtrace on these out-of-memory errors which can sometimes be useful in showing why it's happening.
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