limit for user exceeded

[Aki Tuomi]

We usually set them to twice the number of process_limit for imap.

Aki

> On 31/03/2020 12:29 Maciej Milaszewski <maciej.milaszewski at iq.pl> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi
> System debian 8.11 dovecot-2.2.36.4 and I have some warnings in log likes:
> 
> Warning: Inotify watch limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase
> /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
> 
> 
> cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
> 8192
> 
> in sysctl i change
> 
> #fs.inotify.max_user_watches= 8192
> #fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 16384
> 
> fs.inotify.max_user_watches= 16384
> fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 24576
> 
> One questions - should these values be equal?