Nathan H?sken: > Hi, > > I have installed postfix on a small vServer (256Mb Ram, 10GB HD). I > installed it with dovecot, mysql and postfixadmin. > When I tested it, I got lots of "Cannot allocate Memory" errors.
The primary MX for porcupine.org runs on a "non-virtual" machine with 256MB and never has resource problems. It runs, however, with default_process_limit=30, and there are no other resource-hungry processes. > vzfree told me, that I have enough memory. So I assumed a problems > with open sockets. When systems lie about errors, use strace and see what system calls are failing. # strace -f -o outputfile /usr/libexec/postfix/master -d Be prepared for massive amounts of output once you get past the point that things break immediately. Wietse