[Dovecot] Out of memory errors

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Oct 10 18:03:33 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:08 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:
> 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:

I think I remember someone else also talking about memory leaks with
LDAP.. Unless it was also you. :) I guess I'll have to try find it, or
at least create some debugging/statistics patch which could be used to
figure out where the problem is..

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