I'm having strange behavior in dovecot 2.3.16.
It's opening dozens of dovecot/config process and consuming all server
memory. Normally each process consumes between 700Mb and 1Gb of ram.
Would anyone have an idea about this?
service config {
vsz_limit = 2048M
idle_kill = 60s
service_count = 1024
}
pstree
systemd─┬─ModemManager───2*[{ModemManager}]
├─agetty
├─cron
├─dbus-daemon
├─dovecot─┬─anvil
│ ├─6*[auth]
│ ├─46*[config]
│ ├─1212*[imap]
│ ├─155*[imap-login]
│ ├─12*[lmtp]
│ ├─38*[log]
│ ├─10*[managesieve]
│ ├─19*[pop3]
│ ├─3*[pop3-login]
│ └─18*[stats]
root 45831 0.0 1.1 774688 752732 ? S 09:31 0:31
dovecot/config
root 388792 0.0 1.1 775060 753276 ? S 14:00 0:15
dovecot/config
root 510685 0.0 1.1 775384 753604 ? S 15:06 0:20
dovecot/config
root 675638 0.0 1.1 775348 753620 ? S 16:56 0:15
dovecot/config
root 795375 0.0 1.1 775460 753516 ? S 18:03 0:07
dovecot/config
root 798754 0.2 1.1 775592 753712 ? S 18:05 0:30
dovecot/config
root 1082696 0.2 1.1 774892 753216 ? S 21:10 0:07
dovecot/config
root 1098433 0.4 1.1 774924 753244 ? S 21:33 0:07
dovecot/config
root 1109255 0.9 1.1 774924 753344 ? S 21:50 0:07
dovecot/config
root 1112976 2.0 1.1 774956 753528 ? S 21:57 0:07
dovecot/config
root 1114137 3.0 1.1 775028 753308 ? S 21:59 0:07
dovecot/config
root 1115382 5.4 1.1 774924 753496 ? S 22:01 0:06
dovecot/config
root 1883627 0.0 1.1 759120 728832 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 1889705 0.0 1.8 1251460 1221872 ? S Aug11 0:11
dovecot/config
root 1895022 0.0 1.8 1253280 1224284 ? S Aug11 0:11
dovecot/config
root 1900690 0.0 1.8 1255684 1227528 ? S Aug11 0:12
dovecot/config
root 1905648 0.0 1.8 1257880 1229912 ? S Aug11 0:12
dovecot/config
root 1910857 0.0 1.8 1259156 1231552 ? S Aug11 0:12
dovecot/config
root 1914332 0.0 1.1 764328 736552 ? S Aug11 0:20
dovecot/config
root 2343896 0.0 1.8 1259472 1231516 ? S Aug11 0:12
dovecot/config
root 2346351 0.0 1.8 1259472 1231836 ? S Aug11 0:13
dovecot/config
root 2348559 0.0 1.1 764704 736440 ? S Aug11 0:14
dovecot/config
root 2445701 0.0 1.1 764276 736540 ? S Aug11 0:19
dovecot/config
root 2572525 0.0 1.1 764640 736880 ? S Aug11 0:18
dovecot/config
root 2734251 0.0 1.1 764776 737696 ? S Aug11 0:08
dovecot/config
root 2740980 0.0 1.1 764768 737244 ? S Aug11 0:17
dovecot/config
root 2899925 0.0 1.1 764624 737760 ? S Aug11 0:43
dovecot/config
root 3517063 0.0 1.1 764984 738004 ? S Aug11 0:09
dovecot/config
root 3541465 0.0 1.1 765224 738756 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3545589 0.0 1.1 766452 740408 ? S Aug11 0:06
dovecot/config
root 3549259 0.0 1.1 766796 741048 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3553902 0.0 1.1 767812 742284 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3558080 0.0 1.1 768440 743524 ? S Aug11 0:08
dovecot/config
root 3562091 0.0 1.1 769224 744424 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3568721 0.0 1.1 769388 744888 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3573024 0.0 1.1 770048 745904 ? S Aug11 0:08
dovecot/config
root 3578416 0.0 1.1 770836 746736 ? S Aug11 0:06
dovecot/config
root 3581765 0.0 1.1 771948 748492 ? S Aug11 0:06
dovecot/config
root 3585837 0.0 1.1 772828 749860 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3590276 0.0 1.1 773560 750520 ? S Aug11 0:07
dovecot/config
root 3594640 0.0 1.1 774612 752552 ? S Aug11 0:08
dovecot/config
root 3597417 0.0 1.1 774968 753076 ? S Aug11 0:35
dovecot/config
root 4116314 0.0 1.9 1280496 1258580 ? S 05:31 0:13
dovecot/config
root 4118115 0.0 1.1 774688 752556 ? S 05:33 0:16
dovecot/config
