Andreas Meyer wrote:
Hello all!# dovecot --version 2.1.17 Sometimes I have this in the logfile: May 11 16:55:52 master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped May 11 17:35:03 master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped May 11 17:36:27 master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped I then put this in the dovecot.conf service imap-login { service_count = 1 process_min_avail = 50 #process_limit = $default_process_limit process_limit = 10000 vsz_limit = 64M } and get this: May 11 18:19:36 master: Info: Dovecot v2.1.17 starting up (core dumps disabled) May 11 18:19:36 config: Warning: service auth { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (10300) May 11 18:19:36 config: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (10203) Puting this in: service auth { client_limit = 10300 unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = vmail group = vmail } } service anvil { client_limit = 10300 } I get this: May 11 18:27:37 delta.bitcorner.eu dovecot[3989]: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (1024< 10300), because of service auth { client_limit }
I says that if Dovecot auth process tries to service all 10300 clients, it'll open too many file descriptors and run into a limit. In other words, you configured 10300 but it's not able to service more than 1000.
Try adding ulimit -n 32768 somewhere before Dovecot is executed (I put it into /etc/default/dovecot on Debian), that should clear the warning.
I have also seen this today: May 11 13:14:05 log: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) May 11 13:14:05 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF May 11 13:14:05 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Permission denied
Signal 15 is TERM, it's used by init scripts to stop Dovecot. Those errors seem to me like a result of one process (auth) trying to communicate with another (anvil), which was already shutting down. Doesn't strike me as a problem (but I may be wrong ofc)
