Hi Maria, It does indeed run from systemd, so this is what's currently in the dovecot unit file ( /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service ):
[Unit] Description=Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server After=local-fs.target network.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F NonBlocking=yes TasksMax=10000 LIMIT_NOFILE=10000 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work... Best, gerard On 29-03-17 13:13, MarÃa Arrea wrote: > > If you are running dovecot via systemd, increase NOFILES in the > dovecot startup script > > El 29/03/17 a las 13:07, Gerard Ranke escribió: >> Hi Steffen, >> >> On 29-03-17 12:38, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Gerard Ranke wrote: >>> >>>> dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork() failed: Resource >>>> temporarily unavailable >>>> dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): command startup failed, >>>> throttling for 2 secs >>> check out the ulimits for the Dovecot process. >>> >>> -- Steffen Kaiser >> Here they are: >> >> dovecot@mail:~> ulimit -a >> core file size (blocks, -c) 0 >> data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited >> scheduling priority (-e) 0 >> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited >> pending signals (-i) 256942 >> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 >> max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited >> open files (-n) 10000 >> pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 >> POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 >> real-time priority (-r) 0 >> stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 >> cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited >> max user processes (-u) 256942 >> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited >> file locks (-x) unlimited >> >> This looks ok to me, but on startup, I still get: >> >> dovecot[9309]: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required >> under max. load (1024 < 10000), because of service auth { client_limit } >> >> Strange thing is that dovecot still complains about the fd limit being >> 1024, while I set it to 10000. And how can a ulimit be too low 'because >> of service auth'? I don't get that at all. Thanks for your interest! >> >> gerard > >