* Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi>: > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:37 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > >From my log: > > Aug 10 12:23:39 postamt dovecot: IMAP(megow): Inotify instance limit for > > user exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances > > > > # wc -l subscriptions > > 95 > > That's irrelevant.
Well, I thought it would affect THAT user only. > > # cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances > > 128 > > > > Why does 95 exceed 128? > > You're using virtual users No. > and you have over 128 connections running IDLE command. That user is the ONLY user getting this error. He's the one user with the most subfolders. > I suppose I should update that error message a bit.. This is the second > time this has been asked me today. Maybe: > > "Inotify instance limit for user vmail (UID 1234) exceeded, disabling." No, every user has his/her own UID :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
