[Dovecot] SSL errors

[Bill Boebel]

On Sun, October 8, 2006 4:40 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> said:

> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:10 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:
>> On Fri, September 29, 2006 11:46 am, Dominic Marks <dom at helenmarks.co.uk> said:
>>
>> Actually, I found in the archives that I should increase login_process_size if
>> I'm not running with login_process_per_connection.  I have done this and that
>> seems to have taken care of the malloc failure.
>> 
>> All of my customers who had IMAP SSL problems are reporting that the problem
>> is fixed now that I have increased login_process_size to 64 MB.  In just two
>> hours though the imap-login process is up to 33 MB, and continuing to grow.  Is
>> that normal?  This particular server handles 1200 IMAP connections and 800 IMAPS
>> connections concurrently on average.
>> 
> 
> I don't know how much memory each SSL connection takes, but I'd suggest
> increasing the memory limit even higher, maybe even 256MB. If it
> continues to grow up to it then I guess there's a memory leak somewhere.
> 

After watching it for the past ten days, the imap-login processes on our five Dovecot proxy servers are hovering at between 32MB and 36MB each.  So it doesn't look like a memory leak here.  The proxies are running great.

Thanks,
Bill