[Dovecot] Out of memory after upgrading to dovecot 2.0.21

[Reindl Harald]

hard to say without config-details

shared prcoess or one per connection?
in case of shared 256 MB is really really low

Am 05.02.2013 18:38, schrieb Arnaud Abélard:
> Hrm... exactly when I pressed sent, dovecot started giving me more information:
> 
> master: Error: service(imap): child 22324 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service imap { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you
> may need to increase it))
> 
> Is that why the imap processes were running out of memory or is that just another symptom of the same problem? How
> come we never had that problem with the older version of dovecot 2.0 (sorry, i can't remember which one we were
> running...).
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> On 02/05/2013 06:33 PM, Arnaud Abélard wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've upgraded our servers and now dovecot seems to be running out of
>> memory when accessing my own mailbox (and only mine, which is in a way
>> pretty fortunate):
>>
>> dovecot: imap(abelard-a): Error: mmap() failed with file
>> /vmail/a/b/abelard-a/dovecot.index.cache: Cannot allocate memory
>>
>> imap(abelard-a): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(131072): Out of memory
>>
>> /vmail/a/b/abelard-a/dovecot.index.cache is 224MB big and my mailbox is
>> 72% full of 8GB.
>>
>> any idea of what is happening?

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