On 10.8.2012, at 20.05, David Jonas wrote: > I have a mailbox with an ungodly number of small messages in it. When > new messages are delivered lmtp kicks up an error like the one below. I > tried raising the vsz_limit for lmtp but that didn't see to help.
That should help. > # ls -lah dovecot.index.cache > -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 128M Jul 29 20:16 dovecot.index.cache > > default_vsz_limit = 256 M > service lmtp { > inet_listener lmtp { > port = 24 > } > vsz_limit = 256 M > } Did you try higher than 256M? There might be some memory temporarily wasted which causes it to go over.