cannot login to imap under load

[chaouche yacine]

Hello Gerard !

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:55 PM, Gerard Ranke <gerard.ranke at hku.nl> wrote:> dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork() failed: Resource
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>temporarily unavailable
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>dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): command startup failed,
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>throttling for 2 secs
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>Note thate we our users almost exclusively use imap. Normally we would
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>have some 7 or 800 imap processes running and only a few pop3.



Could it be an OS (or VM) limit on the number of processes you can create ? 


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