> On 30/09/2020 13:43 Peter Mogensen wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Lately I've seen a few examples of users hitting the vsz_limit (usually
> trying to "delete" mails i Spam/Junk by moving them to Trash with a
> large dovecot.index.cache - which resulted in mails left/leaked in the
> tmp directory of Trash.
>
> Sometimes it seems the client gets into a state were it repeatedly tried
> to sync the client and server state so it does it again and again,
> building up the number of files/links in tmp.
>
> It seems the default 1 week interval to "unlink_old_files()" is not
> enough to prevent this from blowing up inode wise.
>
> However, ... lowering it, - or increasing vsz_limit feels a bit like
> kicking the can down the road.
>
> PS: This on dovecot 2.2.36
>
> /Peter
You need to set your vsz_limit to facilitate large index files. I would
recommend configuring it up to 2G.
Aki
