This happens to me too. On my case, connections are ESTABILISHED. On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:09 AM Steffen Kaiser < skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Benedikt Carda wrote: > > > I am running into this error: > > /Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded > > (mail_max_userip_connections=10)/ > > > > The suggested solution in hundreds of support requests on this mailing > > list and throughout the internet is to increase the number of maximum > > userip connections. But this is not curing the problem, it is just > > postponing it to the moment when the new limit is reached. > > > > When i type: > > /doveadm who// > > / > > > > I can see that some accounts have several pids running: > > /someaccount 10 imap (25396 25391 25386 25381 25374 7822 7817 > > 5559 5543 5531) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)/ > > > > Now when I check these pids with > > /ps aux/ > > > > I find out that the oldest pid (5531) has a lifetime of already over 12 > > hours. Anyway I know that the clients that initiated the connections are > > not connected anymore, so there is no way that there is a valid reason > > why this connection should still be open. > > What's the state of the connection ? > > > - -- > Steffen Kaiser > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEVAwUBWADK13z1H7kL/d9rAQKw6gf/SbLMdf988i3u5arben3YseszjkOfMLqr > bRzuBa3wopFC7h456qORiSUqs14YWK7IvLkC5Ke81pdz3beDPFaYrjxvIjldn0KJ > YZzsAp7Nc04OzdcC1JZlZ96zjL85AfiokGVvjhCuqVNV0S1R9dy5wJLyouvdnNym > gLO2twykuEajJugcnqSfMj0QWhMFO+quYAOEUNeRpf4fDvPPNo11Y89aDtwCrZUp > OMEbDIMa92CnNRARkiqRINJmqt3v9ou3DEETnoyj8qGglO/zU+uAOE9BeoihPF4l > GIKMJ4agva1p1Un53RBsnpsXxVCljMcvt++M5g/vs+svYqulRpZeXQ== > =O6DY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
