[Dovecot] child (login) killed with signal 9

[Matt LaPlante]

On Dec 16, 2007 4:40 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 15:56 -0500, Matt LaPlante wrote:
> > > Does setting login_process_size=64 fix this? If so, I'll update that
> > > text to mention setrlimit() address space limit.
> >
> > This is currently 32 (according to dovecot.conf).  Wouldn't raising it
> > to 64 exacerbate memory problems if they do indeed exist?
>
> No. The setting gives the maximum virtual size for the process. I've
> already increased it to 64MB because shared library mappings have caused
> 32MB not to be enough in some systems. Maybe in your system 32MB is just
> enough to get the process started, but not enough to always allocate
> enough memory for heap/stack.

No joy with that fix I'm afraid.  Still the same clusters of kill
signals with no other explanation.  I'm not terribly worried about it,
so I don't want to bother anyone, but I'm still open to more
suggestions. :)

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