Issue with one user only, exceeding connections

[Larry Rosenman]

doveadm who
and
doveadm kick
are useful too :)

On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 11:29 AM Richard <
inbound-dovecot at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:

>
>
> > Date: Thursday, June 09, 2022 11:07:38 -0500
> > From: Jeremy Schaeffer <kb9mfd at phonesplus.biz>
> >
> > On 6/9/2022 10:59, Richard wrote:
> >>
> >>> Date: Thursday, June 09, 2022 10:46:25 -0500
> >>> From: Jeremy Schaeffer <kb9mfd at phonesplus.biz>
> >>>
> >>> That was the first thing I tried, I lowered the cache connections
> >>> in Thunderbird. Actually the max connections was 50, not 500, but
> >>> I could see why as I do have a lot of folders, but what is odd is
> >>> I have other mailboxes that have even more folders, but it's only
> >>> one mailbox that is trowing the error.
> >>>
> >>> "# ps -axww | grep imap" does not give me the same results -
> >>>
> >>> .....
> >>>
> >>> 19897 ?        S      0:00 dovecot/imap
> >>> 19900 ?        S      0:02 dovecot/imap
> >>> 19901 ?        S      0:00 dovecot/imap
> >>> 19902 ?        S      0:00 dovecot/imap
> >>> .....
> >>>
> >>> I wish it did give me the mailbox, is there a option to get it to
> >>> give me that information?
> >>
> >> Try "auxw" on your "ps". I.e., add in the "u" which will get you
> >> the user detail in the first column, otherwise you just get the
> >> process id.
> >>
> >>
> > Thank you! That worked, I piped the output to a file, grep the
> > username and sure enough there are 60 lines. So I guess going over
> > 50 was a possibility.
> >
> > Learn something new every day. I set the maximum to 100 so I should
> > not have any errors on that anymore.
> >
>
> Rather than simply upping the limit I think a reasonable question to
> ask is why/how they are managing to do that. That's a lot of open
> folders.
>
> By the way, the single command:
>
>  ps auxw | grep imap | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq -c
>
> will get you a nice list with the users and their connection counts.
>
>
>
>

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