On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 20:16 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: > Before seeing this issue, this server has run fine for two years with > Sarge, and fine for a couple of months with Etch. Thunderbird 2 was > installed on workstations in December. Other than that barely any changes > have been made and nothing jumps out at me as a meaningful change. > ...other than a faulty web app that emailed 50GB of small emails, that > have been manually removed at the command-line from a .Trash maildir > directory with rm so as far as I can imagine are long gone. > > If anyone can suggest which way I should progress with this that would be > really appreciated thanks.
Play with the settings until they fit your needs. The dovecot.conf is very well documented. > # Number of login processes to keep for listening new connections. login_processes_count = 3 > > # Maximum number of login processes to create. The listening process count > # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start > logging > # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent > fork-bombing > # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all > # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until the limit set by > # this setting is reached. login_max_processes_count = 64 > > # Maximum number of connections allowed per each login process. This setting > # is used only if login_process_per_connection=no. Once the limit is reached, > # the process notifies master so that it can create a new login process. > # You should make sure that the process has at least > # 16 + login_max_connections * 2 available file descriptors. login_max_connections = 128 Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
