>>>>> "filipe@digirati" == filipe@digirati com br <[email protected]> 
>>>>> writes:


filipe@digirati> I tested the suggestion to decrease the service_count and the 
accounts 
filipe@digirati> stopped logging in, then I gradually increased it to 500, and 
now it's 
filipe@digirati> working. But the dovecot/config processes are still being 
created, there 
filipe@digirati> has been no change for the better.

So maybe you can give us more background on this setup.  How many
users are you supporting?  How many mailboxes?  What is your backend
mailbox format?  Maybe you need to share your dovecot config as well.  

Have you tried upgrading to 2.3.19.1 as well?

So when you say "the accounts stopped logging in" does that mean your
users started having problems logging into the system?  Does that mean
IMAP sessions timed out?

filipe@digirati> Now I have an error constantly appearing in the mail.err file

filipe@digirati> Aug 15 14:19:34 box6 dovecot: imap(USER_NAME): Error: Error 
reading 
filipe@digirati> configuration: read(/run/dovecot/config) failed: 
read(size=8192) failed: 
filipe@digirati> Interrupted system call - Also failed to read config by 
executing 
filipe@digirati> doveconf: /run/dovecot/config is a UNIX socket (path is from 
CONFIG_FILE 
filipe@digirati> environment)


Have you stopped and completely restarted your dovecot setup when you
made the config changes?  

filipe@digirati> Aug 15 14:19:34 box6 dovecot: imap(USER_NAME): Error: Error 
reading 
filipe@digirati> configuration: read(/run/dovecot/config) failed: 
read(size=8192) failed: 
filipe@digirati> Interrupted system call - Also failed to read config by 
executing 
filipe@digirati> doveconf: /run/dovecot/config is a UNIX socket (path is from 
CONFIG_FILE 
filipe@digirati> environment)
filipe@digirati> Aug 15 14:19:34 box6 dovecot: imap(USER_NAME): Error: Error 
reading 
filipe@digirati> configuration: read(/run/dovecot/config) failed: 
read(size=8192) failed: 
filipe@digirati> Interrupted system call - Also failed to read config by 
executing 
filipe@digirati> doveconf: /run/dovecot/config is a UNIX socket (path is from 
CONFIG_FILE 
filipe@digirati> environment)

filipe@digirati> On 14/08/2022 22:24, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>>> "filipe@digirati" == filipe@digirati com br <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> writes:
>> filipe@digirati> I'm having strange behavior in dovecot 2.3.16.
>> filipe@digirati> It's opening dozens of dovecot/config process and consuming 
>> all server
>> filipe@digirati> memory. Normally each process consumes between 700Mb and 
>> 1Gb of ram.
>> 
>> filipe@digirati> Would anyone have an idea about this?
>> 
>> filipe@digirati> service config {
>> filipe@digirati>    vsz_limit = 2048M
>> filipe@digirati>    idle_kill = 60s
>> filipe@digirati>    service_count = 1024
>> filipe@digirati> }
>> 
>> I wonder why you have the service count so high?  I'd drop it down, or
>> do you really have 1025 connections in 60 seconds?
>> 
>> From the docs:
>> 
>> 
>> service_count
>> 
>> Number of client connections to handle until the process kills
>> itself. 0 means unlimited. 1 means only a single connection is handled
>> until the process is stopped - this is the most secure choice since
>> there’s no way for one connection’s state to leak to the next one. For
>> better performance this can be set higher, but ideally not unlimited
>> since more complex services can have small memory leaks and/or memory
>> fragmentation and the process should get restarted eventually. For
>> example 100..1000 can be good values.
>> 
>> So maybe drop it down to 100 for now and see how that works for you.
>> 
>> 
>> filipe@digirati> pstree
>> filipe@digirati> systemd─┬─ModemManager───2*[{ModemManager}]
>> filipe@digirati>          ├─agetty
>> filipe@digirati>          ├─cron
>> filipe@digirati>          ├─dbus-daemon
>> filipe@digirati>          ├─dovecot─┬─anvil
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─6*[auth]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─46*[config]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─1212*[imap]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─155*[imap-login]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─12*[lmtp]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─38*[log]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─10*[managesieve]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─19*[pop3]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         ├─3*[pop3-login]
>> filipe@digirati>          │         └─18*[stats]
>> 
>> 
>> filipe@digirati> root       45831  0.0  1.1 774688 752732 ?       S    09:31 
>> 0:31
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root      388792  0.0  1.1 775060 753276 ?       S    14:00 
>>   0:15
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root      510685  0.0  1.1 775384 753604 ?       S    15:06 
>>   0:20
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root      675638  0.0  1.1 775348 753620 ?       S    16:56 
>>   0:15
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root      795375  0.0  1.1 775460 753516 ?       S    18:03 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root      798754  0.2  1.1 775592 753712 ?       S    18:05 
>>   0:30
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1082696  0.2  1.1 774892 753216 ?       S    21:10 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1098433  0.4  1.1 774924 753244 ?       S    21:33 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1109255  0.9  1.1 774924 753344 ?       S    21:50 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1112976  2.0  1.1 774956 753528 ?       S    21:57 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1114137  3.0  1.1 775028 753308 ?       S    21:59 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1115382  5.4  1.1 774924 753496 ?       S    22:01 
>>   0:06
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1883627  0.0  1.1 759120 728832 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1889705  0.0  1.8 1251460 1221872 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:11
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1895022  0.0  1.8 1253280 1224284 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:11
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1900690  0.0  1.8 1255684 1227528 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:12
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1905648  0.0  1.8 1257880 1229912 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:12
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1910857  0.0  1.8 1259156 1231552 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:12
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     1914332  0.0  1.1 764328 736552 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:20
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2343896  0.0  1.8 1259472 1231516 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:12
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2346351  0.0  1.8 1259472 1231836 ?     S    Aug11 
>>   0:13
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2348559  0.0  1.1 764704 736440 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:14
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2445701  0.0  1.1 764276 736540 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:19
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2572525  0.0  1.1 764640 736880 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:18
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2734251  0.0  1.1 764776 737696 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:08
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2740980  0.0  1.1 764768 737244 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:17
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     2899925  0.0  1.1 764624 737760 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:43
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3517063  0.0  1.1 764984 738004 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:09
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3541465  0.0  1.1 765224 738756 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3545589  0.0  1.1 766452 740408 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:06
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3549259  0.0  1.1 766796 741048 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3553902  0.0  1.1 767812 742284 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3558080  0.0  1.1 768440 743524 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:08
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3562091  0.0  1.1 769224 744424 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3568721  0.0  1.1 769388 744888 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3573024  0.0  1.1 770048 745904 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:08
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3578416  0.0  1.1 770836 746736 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:06
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3581765  0.0  1.1 771948 748492 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:06
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3585837  0.0  1.1 772828 749860 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3590276  0.0  1.1 773560 750520 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:07
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3594640  0.0  1.1 774612 752552 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:08
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     3597417  0.0  1.1 774968 753076 ?       S    Aug11 
>>   0:35
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     4116314  0.0  1.9 1280496 1258580 ?     S    05:31 
>>   0:13
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> filipe@digirati> root     4118115  0.0  1.1 774688 752556 ?       S    05:33 
>>   0:16
>> filipe@digirati> dovecot/config
>> 

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