On 06/20/2014 10:05 PM, Mike Bregg wrote:
> On 2014-06-20 20:48, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>> I'm trying to setup dovecot with opensmtpd and I'm getting the following
>> errors for dovecot.
>>
>> Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal:
>> pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
>> Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal: master: service(auth-worker):
>> child 10932 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
>> vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
>> environment to get core dump)
>> Jun 20 21:41:04 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
>> process died unexpectedly
>> Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal:
>> pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
>> Jun 20 21:41:10 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
>> process died unexpectedly
>> Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal: master: service(auth-worker):
>> child 12071 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
>> vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
>> environment to get core dump)
>
> You could try increasing vsz_limit to something like 512 MB. Do you
have mailboxes with a large quantity of emails (as in thousands) that
256 MB isn't enough?
>
> Mike
>
I felt like that was a clue, but have no idea how to set vsz_limit,
however there is no mail on the system. I got those errors just testing
imap login from mutt.
Edgar
