[Dovecot] Possible mdbox corruption

Timo Sirainen
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:55:49 -0000

On 5.1.2012, at 2.24, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

> I thought I had cleared out the corruption I had before - perhaps I was
mistaken.  What steps should I take to help locate these issues?  Currently
using 2.1rc1.  I see the following errors in my logs, including out of memory
and message size issues (at 15:30):
..
> Jan  4 05:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker):
child 10896 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to
increase it))
> Jan  4 06:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1 at domain.com): Fatal:
pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory

The problem is clearly that index-worker's vsz_limit is too low. Increase it
(or default_vsz_limit).