On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:37 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > >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
That's irrelevant. > # cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances > 128 > > Why does 95 exceed 128? You're using virtual users and you have over 128 connections running IDLE command. I suppose I should update that error message a bit.. This is the second time this has been asked me today. Maybe: "Inotify instance limit for user vmail (UID 1234) exceeded, disabling."