[Dovecot] Disconnected: Shutting down:

Frank Elsner
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:14:31 -0000

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:34:43 +0200 Frank Elsner (that's me)
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> dovecot-1.0.3 on Fedora 6 works perfect in general but sometimes the system
> becomes unresponsive and the log file shows tons of messages like this:
>
>
>   ...   imap-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: 127.0.0.1, secured
>   ...   pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: aa.bb.cc.dd
>
>
> Restarting dovecot helps, but what's behind?
> What can I do to prevent this?

To answer my own question :-)

I guess I found the solution.
login_max_processes_count = 256 (default is 128)

And currently with ~180 we are far above the former used default.



--Frank Elsner