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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 seeing this message in my /var/log/maillog: May 26 12:35:00 agencymail dovecot: IMAP(info at example.com): Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances I rummaged through google, and found : http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2008-May/011132.html which says I need to increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances (no

>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

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

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)

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:

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 =

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.

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

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 there, How dovecot move the message to Spam without antispam plugin installed or sieve rule to move to this folder? I have no configuration to do this. My logs: Sep 10 12:12:44 mda02 dovecot: imap(my.user at mydomain.com): Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 5000 (UID vmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances Sep 10 12:12:45 mda02 dovecot: imap(my.user

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.

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

hello, i have a problem with my dovecot installation. sometimes, the thunderbird clients on windows machines complains about: "server is not imap4 compatible". on the server, at the same time, i found this error: Apr 20 16:21:17 harlock dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=192.168.0.194, lip=10.70.0.1, TLS handshake the imap server is behind a dmz which sometimes

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

Hi, I recently switched from courier imap to dovecot. With courier I had a working IDLE setup that informed me immediately when new mail arrived. With Dovecot it is different, sometimes i get an immediate result but most of the time it takes a rather long time for the notification to return to the client. For testing purposes I set mailbox_idle_check_interval = 1 and i now get the same

I just read an interesting article caleed "Monitor Linux file system events with inotify.", see http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02Inotify. I notice that /dev/inotify is not present on my CentOS4 system, so the necessary kernel patches are probably not present. Does anyone know if there are any plans afoot to provide this functionality for

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... =)

hi, the current code has changed include linux/inotify.h to sys/inotify.h since 2006-01-17, but that won't work with inotify*.h as documented in the wiki. One has to either revert back to linux/inotify.h, or add #include <sys/inotify-syscalls.h> to both configure.in and src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c Or, just symlink sys/inotify.h -> linux/inotify.h. That's on Debian 3.1

Hi, dovecot (1.0.alpha5) won't compile with inotify support because inotify.h can't be found. I'm running Linux 2.6.15-rc5 with headers from 2.6.12 (like most vendors). I've noticed that beagle and other inotify-enabled applications ships with an inotify.h. Could this be scheduled for alpha6? :-)