Where did you set the ulimit -u? It doesn't seem to be used by Dovecot processes. In any case there's nothing in dovecot.conf that can help you.
On 17.9.2012, at 18.10, Tomáš Randa wrote: > Hello, > > thanks for answer! I know that message come from kernel. But I have set > ulimit -u to 8192 for uid 89, so I think I forgot to increase some value in > dovecot.conf.. > > > Tomas R. > > > Dne 17.09.12 16:46, Timo Sirainen napsal(a): >> On 17.9.2012, at 17.40, Tomáš Randa wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have configuration question. Running FreeBSD 9.0 / AMD64 / Dovecot 2.1.8 >>> version and cannot get over 1024 processes. I`ve increased process_limit in >>> imap and pop3 and still have messages in syslog like: maxproc limit >>> exceeded by uid 89, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). >>> Did I forget to increase some other value? System values are higher - >>> kern.maxprocperuid: 8192 and kern.maxproc: 12288 >> That message comes from the kernel. Dovecot doesn't use login.conf. You need >> to set ulimit -u manually (= in init.d script) before starting Dovecot. >> >
