[Dovecot] failed: Cannot allocate memory

[Mario Antonio]

On 1/30/2010 9:08 AM, Philipp Snizek wrote:
> On 30.01.2010 14:38, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 08:31 +0100, Philipp Snizek wrote:
>>
>>> 2010-01-30 08:12:50 sleipnir local7.err dovecot  IMAP(spam at dom.com):
>>> read(/var/tmp/dovecot/spam/indexes/.INBOX_score20/dovecot.index.search.uids) 
>>>
>>> failed: Cannot allocate memory
>> I'm not really sure why read() would say that.
>>
>>> 2010-01-30 08:12:50 sleipnir local7.err dovecot  IMAP(spam at dom.com):
>>> mremap_anon(44609536) failed: Invalid argument
>> This failing with "Cannot allocate memory" would make more sense.
>>
>> Anyway, solution is to change mail_process_size, either increase it or
>> set it to 0 to disable the limit.
>
> Thanks. I changed the mail_process_size. It works now and searching is 
> now pretty damn fast!
>
> What's the default limit on  mail_process_size?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig

mail_process_size = 256
    Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to
    mmap()ing files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set
    pretty high. 


M.A.