dovecot 2.2.36.4 problem with ulimit

Maciej Milaszewski maciej.milaszewski at iq.pl
Wed Sep 16 10:45:47 EEST 2020


Hi
I update os from debian8 to debian9

# 2.2.36.4 (baf9232c1): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.24.2 (aaba65b7)
# OS: Linux 4.9.0-13-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.13

All works fine but sometimes I get:

Sep 16 09:17:00 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3): fork()
failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)
Sep 16 09:17:00 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork()
failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)
Sep 16 09:17:00 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(doveadm):
fork() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)
Sep 16 09:17:02 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(doveadm):
fork() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)
Sep 16 09:17:02 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3): fork()
failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)
Sep 16 09:17:02 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork()
failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)
Sep 16 09:17:04 dovecot4 dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork()
failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (ulimit -u 257577 reached?)

Other dovecot is debian8 and problem not exists - any idea ?


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