On 06/21/2014 02:17 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:37:07PM -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>
>> On 06/20/2014 11:20 PM, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>>> On 06/20/2014 10:58 PM, Mike Bregg wrote:
>>>> On 2014-06-20 21:14, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>>>>> On 06/20/2014 10:05 PM, Mike Bregg wrote:
>>>>>> On 2014-06-20 20:48, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm trying to setup dovecot with opensmtpd and I'm getting the
>>>>>>> following
>>>>>>> errors for dovecot.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal:
>>>>>>> pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
>>>>>>> Jun 20 21:41:04 auth-worker(10932): Fatal: master:
>>>>>>> service(auth-worker):
>>>>>>> child 10932 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
>>>>>>> vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
>>>>>>> environment to get core dump)
>>>>>>> Jun 20 21:41:04 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
>>>>>>> process died unexpectedly
>>>>>>> Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal:
>>>>>>> pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
>>>>>>> Jun 20 21:41:10 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker
>>>>>>> process died unexpectedly
>>>>>>> Jun 20 21:41:10 auth-worker(12071): Fatal: master:
>>>>>>> service(auth-worker):
>>>>>>> child 12071 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker {
>>>>>>> vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1
>>>>>>> environment to get core dump)
>>>>>> You could try increasing vsz_limit to something like 512 MB. Do you
>>>>> have mailboxes with a large quantity of emails (as in thousands) that
>>>>> 256 MB isn't enough?
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>> I felt like that was a clue, but have no idea how to set vsz_limit,
>>>>> however there is no mail on the system. I got those errors just testing
>>>>> imap login from mutt.
>>>> Have a look through the config files in /etc/dovecot/conf.d
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>> Yeah I found it hiding out in 10-master.conf upped it to 512MB as
>>> suggested with no luck. Then just for fun I upped it to 5000M and still
>>> no luck.
>>>
>>> Edgar
>>>
>> I just noticed in the log even after raising vsz_limit the error remains
>> the same claiming vsz_limit=256MB
> This is a know bug. If an unknown user tries to log in, the login code
> goes into a loop expanding a buffer until it runs out of mem. The
> cause of the bug is also known, but nobody (including myself) came up
> with a diff yet.
>
> The login process gets rsstarted, so there is no immediate functional
> problem, apart from the log being filled.
>
> -Otto
>
Thanks for all the replies. Not sure what I was doing wrong I was
trying to use bsdauth, but could never get it to let me login. Switched
to MySql and its working. No more memory errors in the log.
