[Dovecot] auth: out of memory

[Branko F. Gračnar]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:27, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-02-06 19:56:13 +0100, Branko F. Gračnar wrote:
> > I just couldn't login to my dovecot imap (1.0-beta2). Dovecot
> > authenticates from mysql database.
> >
> > Feb  6 19:47:33 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener):
> > sql(damirh at noviforum.si): User query failed: MySQL client run out of
> > memory Feb  6 19:47:52 elfstone dovecot:
> > auth-worker(default_with_listener): ^GOut of memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
> > Feb  6 19:47:52 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener):
> > sql(bfg at noviforum.si): User query failed: MySQL client run out of memory
> > Feb  6 19:48:19 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener):
> > ^GOut of memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
> > Feb  6 19:48:19 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener):
> > sql(bfg at noviforum.si): User query failed: MySQL client run out of memory
> > Feb  6 19:48:19 elfstone dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener):
> > ^GOut of memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
> >
> >
> > Restarting dovecot solved the problem. Ofcourse, machine didn't run into
> > memory problems.
> >
> > Slackware 9.1, linux 2.6.
>
> what was the memory usage of the auth process?

Honestly, i don't know, becouse i immediately restarted dovecot, becouse is in 
a production. I will report this when this issue will accour again.

Oh, i forgot to mention: i have mysql 4.0.17 installed.

> do you have any ulimits set for it?

# ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 12287
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited


Best regards, Brane