[Dovecot] Out of memory errors

[Bill Boebel]

On Tue, October 10, 2006 1:44 am, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> said:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:32 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:
>> Do these errors indicate a memory leak?  I see them in the logs a few times per
>> day on each of our servers, running CVS dovecot-20060924...
>>
>> Oct  8 22:21:30 mail38b dovecot: auth(default): block_alloc(): Out of memory
>> Oct  8 22:21:30 mail38b dovecot: child 6391 (auth) returned error 83 (Out of
>> memory)
>> Oct  9 20:05:05 mail38b dovecot: auth(default): pool_system_realloc(): Out of
>> memory
>> Oct  9 20:05:05 mail38b dovecot: child 655 (auth) returned error 83 (Out of
>> memory)
> 
> Could be. What passdb and userdb are you using? Are you using anything
> else than plaintext auth?
> 

We are using ldap and passwd:

  passdb ldap {
    args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  }
  userdb ldap {
    args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  }
  passdb passwd-file {
    args = /etc/dovecot-master.passwd
    master = yes
  }

And we are only using plain-text auth.

Bill