[Dovecot] out of memory error

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 26 22:16:53 EET 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:46 +0300, Pavel Volkovitskiy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have this errors in my dovecot.log every day or two:
> =============================================
> ...
> dovecot: Jan 24 10:28:56 Error: auth-worker(default): Out of memory 
> (Needed 8164 bytes)

Since that process is executing only MySQL queries, it looks like
there's a memory leak somewhere in there.. Would be nice if someone with
more time could take a look at it :)

For example you could try setting

auth_executable = /usr/bin/valgrind --leak-check=yes --num-callers=10 /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth

And after some time send HUP signal to Dovecot, and then it should print
to logs all the leaked memory.

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