Thanks Timo, Dovecot would not boot without count=1 but i did change the settings to cache authentications and we cant reproduce the error any more.
Thanks for your help! Paul -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> To: Paul Carter-Brown <paul.carter-br...@smilecoms.com> Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] ldap_search() failed "Server Busy" Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:56:35 -0400 On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 22:23 +0200, Paul Carter-Brown wrote: > Jun 4 18:30:59 ug1s02-zone1 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] > auth(default): ldap(0202934...@ug.smilecoms.com,10.31.3.13): > ldap_search() failed (filter (uid=0202934...@ug.smilecoms.com)): Server > is busy > > We are authenticating against sun directory server yet see no errors in > the directory server and it seems to be under low load. Any ideas if > there is something on dovecot we should tune to erradicate this? We are > running a web front end on top of dovecot and hence have a lot of > login/logout happening as the user navigates around. Oh, and enabling auth cache would probably solve this too, since most auths wouldn't go to LDAP then.