similar to: Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling?

So I rebooted my mail server, and now dovecot fails to start with: Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED] Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use [FAILED] [root at agencymail postfix]# dovecot -n # 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise

>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 # cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances 128 Why does 95 exceed 128? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Gesch?ftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charit? - Universit?tsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin

Maybe I have multiple problems - dunno. I've started seeing the following log lines: Mar 7 07:46:22 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com): Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 5000 (UID vmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances max_user_instances is currently 128. I've tried stopping and restarting dovecot - the message immediately returns.

I'm running squirrelmail on top of dovecot, and noticed that some of my users display the quota (using the squirrelmail plugin check_quota) and some don't. So I did some digging. For those that do not display the quota, their account also doesn't provide any data with: . getquotaroot inbox * QUOTAROOT "inbox" . OK Getquotaroot completed. When I check the account

Hi I allready have set 256 on max_user_instances , and in the log i keep seeing Mar 28 10:08:44 mail dovecot: imap(some.username): Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 98 (UID vmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances All users use thunderbird 3.1.9 , and from time to time this show in log , with a random user. What can i do to resolve this issue ? my

Hi I Dont understand or? I im thinking wrong: process_limit = 25000 Older: #fs.inotify.max_user_watches= 8192 #fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 16384 New: fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 8192 ? fs.inotify.max_user_watches= process_limit x 2 + fs.inotify.max_user_instances fs.inotify.max_user_watches= 58192 On 31.03.2020 13:44, Aki Tuomi wrote: > I would prefer replies on the list... =)

Hello, Timo, last year when you remoted into our server and performed the migration from courier-imap, we ran into this issue, and you solved it by doing: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances Then you said you were going to solve this permanently by changing the init script... Here is what you said (this is from the skype chat): [2012-06-04 10:40:43 AM] timosirainen:

(dovecot v1.2.16) I've notice the log notices about increasing /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances on my servers, and started wondering if inotify works for network/cluster filesystems.. I found this: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=311194 which says that there's no mechanism for one node to tell another node that a directory changed for GPFS.. And I

Hi System debian 8.11 dovecot-2.2.36.4 and I have some warnings in log likes: Warning: Inotify watch limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches 8192 in sysctl i change #fs.inotify.max_user_watches= 8192 #fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 16384 fs.inotify.max_user_watches= 16384 fs.inotify.max_user_instances =

Hello, I've a problem on my system with inotify. In the smbd logfile are shown a lot messages like this: [2015/06/10 11:15:21.644453, 0, pid=57030, effective(12700, 100), real(0, 0)] smbd/notify_inotify.c:297(inotify_setup) Failed to init inotify - Too many open files [2015/06/10 11:15:23.968497, 0, pid=57030, effective(12700, 100), real(0, 0)] smbd/notify_inotify.c:297(inotify_setup)

Hi. What does the warning "Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling." mean, and how do I get rid of it? I assume that I have to change a limit somewhere? Regards, Anders.

We usually set them to twice the number of process_limit for imap. Aki > On 31/03/2020 12:29 Maciej Milaszewski <maciej.milaszewski at iq.pl> wrote: > > > Hi > System debian 8.11 dovecot-2.2.36.4 and I have some warnings in log likes: > > Warning: Inotify watch limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches > > >

Hello, i saw in my log followed messages: dovecot: 2010-01-18 13:20:54 Warning: IMAP(user1 at domain1.com): Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling. dovecot: 2010-01-18 13:21:01 Warning: IMAP(user2 at domain2.com): Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling. dovecot: 2010-01-18 13:21:23 Warning: IMAP(user2 at domain2.com: Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling.

Hi, I am using centos 6.4. i am trying to update /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances but it seems like it is not supported anymore in /etc/sysctl.conf. How do we update max_user_instances on centos 6.4? Thanks & Regards Manjunath

I get the following error: Fatal: epoll_create(): Too many open files (you may need to increase /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances) Works fine if I start it by hand, I'm guessing it has to due with the environment heart starts it in? My first thought was to do exactly what the message suggests, but my kernel doesn't appear to define max_user_instances, but there is a

This is with respect to an error that I am facing in dovecot. The error is that is seen in logs is "Feb 23 00:04:46 mailblade1 dovecot: IMAP(USERNAME): /indexes/USERNAME/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line 7: 1234776125.M559298P3988.s2o.qlc.co.in,S=13111,W=13470:2, (uid 94277 -> 97805)" This error is seen for multiple users. Once this error occurs for a user, the

I recently upgraded my dovecot from 2.1 to 2.2, and when I started, I received this message: doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (1024) Searching through my configs, I do not have 1024 set anywhere. In order to stop this I set client_limit=1024 in my auth{} block... this seemed odd that the defaults disagreed with each other. However,

We are gradually rolling out Dovecot (IMAP only, no POP3) to our customer base. We are replicating between a pair of CentOS 7 boxes. All has been working wonderfully. However, to be sure our rollout continues to go smoothly, we put together a simple benchmark client program to fire up X persistent IMAP connections (using hundreds of mailboxes) that login, list the folders, select the

Hi Friends, I have noticed below log in dovecot.log on my machine Centos 6.7 32 bit. Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 89 (UID vpopmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances I have increased manually but after reboot goto the same existing default value. How do i fix this issue permanently. Advance thanks for your help. -- *Thanks,* *Manikandan.C*

Hi, Since few days I noticed very high load on my mailserver (Centos 6.6 64bit, 8 GB RAM, 2 x CPU 3.00GHz I am using Dovecot + Postfix + Roundcube + Nginx. I have about 10000 users. Spool is on network attached storage (Coraid). File system is ext4 (mounted with noatime). Problem appears almost every morning (while load is normal during afternoon). I suspect that this can be related to some