[Dovecot] No log for hitting login_max_processes_count?

[Bryan Polk]

We ran into a similiar problem after migrating to Dovecot on Solaris with 
an LVS in front. Tweaking some config options cleared it up. Specifically 
turning on auth_cache:

# Authentication Cache
auth_cache_size = 10240
auth_cache_ttl = 18000

It went from hundreds of login processes down to 20-60.


Bryan Polk
Unix Systems Administrator
Communication and Multimedia Services
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
(850) 410-6164
bpolk at eng.fsu.edu


On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Adam McDougall wrote:

> I think today just due to increased use, my mail servers hit 
> login_max_processes_count.  It wasn't obvious what was happening, logins just 
> weren't acting like they should and sometimes would get disconnected before 
> given a prompt from the server.  Something made me think to check if I had 
> too many of certain dovecot processes and I found I had 128 imap-login 
> processes on both servers, but nothing in the logs seemed to point that out 
> for me.  Should there be?  It would have been alot easier to debug.  Also, 
> this seems to be from general use, doesn't seem like a DoS, so is this just a 
> setting I should keep an eye on and increase it by reasonable amounts as 
> needed?  Thanks.
>