ulimit warning when restarting

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Fri Jul 18 09:29:42 UTC 2014


Am 18.07.2014 00:58, schrieb Will Yardley:
> When restarting Dovecot 2.2.10 (via atrpms) on RHEL 6, I get the error:
> Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (1024 < 4096), because of default_client_limit
>
> # doveconf default_internal_user
> default_internal_user = dovecot
>
> Should dovecot print this warning based on $default_internal_user, or
> based on root?
>
> As root:
> # ulimit -n
> 1024
>
> As user dovecot:
> $ ulimit -n
> 49152
> $ whoami
> dovecot
>
> # grep dovecot /etc/security/limits.conf
> dovecot hard locks     49152
> dovecot hard nofile    49152
> dovecot hard maxlogins 8192
> dovecot soft locks     49152
> dovecot soft nofile    49152
> dovecot soft maxlogins 8192
>


You need to specify the desired ulimit in /etc/sysconfig/dovecot

Alexander



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