[Dovecot] Possibly dumb questions about DC and user/system limits

Jonathan Siegle jsiegle at psu.edu
Fri May 15 20:54:50 EEST 2009


On May 14, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Stewart Dean wrote:

>
>
> The only changes was that max_mail_processes went from 1024 to  
> 1280.  Now I get a error message when I start DC:
>
> Warning: fd limit 2000 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full  
> load (more than 2054). Either grow the limit or change  
> login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings
>
> So I changed the no_size and no_size_hard to 3500 and 4000  
> respectively in both dovecot and root
>
> AIX defines nosize:* *Sets the soft limit for the number of file  
> descriptors a user process may have open at one time.
>

I found a way to recreate the problem on my side. Since I start  
dovecot from inetd, I must verify my shell has the proper ulimits then  
do stopsrc -s inetd;startsrc -s inetd to pick up the new ulimits. I  
didn't notice how you started dovecot. Maybe this helps.


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