[Dovecot] auth service: out of memory

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Fri Jun 29 10:39:25 EEST 2012


Il 29/06/2012 09:19, Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
> On 29.6.2012, at 9.35, Mailing List SVR wrote:
>
>> I have some out of memory errors in my logs (file errors.txt attached)
> How large is your auth process's VSZ when it starts up and has handled a couple of logins? It's possible that it's not leaking at all, you're just not giving enough memory for its normal operation. Some Linux distros nowadays build binaries that eat up a lot of VSZ immediately when they start up.
>
>
ps aux report this:

dovecot   7454  0.0  0.0  85980  3776 ?        S    09:36   0:00 
dovecot/auth

before restarting dovecot the auth process was running since about 1 
hour and this is the output from ps aux

dovecot  25002  0.0  0.0  86112  3780 ?        S    08:24   0:00 
dovecot/auth

thanks
Nicola






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