With approximately 1000 concurrent imap users Dovecot crashes with "imap: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 6) failed: Invalid argument"
Issue
- With approximately 1000 concurrent
imapusers, Dovecot crashes with the following message, as seen in the system messages file:
Mar 13 08:49:15 hostname dovecot: imap: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 6) failed: Invalid argument
Mar 13 08:49:15 hostname dovecot: imap: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x2b0019589bb0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x2b0019589c06] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x2b00195895c3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_add+0x118) [0x2b00195959f8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_add+0xa5) [0x2b00195950c5] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_init_finish+0x1d2) [0x2b0019583552] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x11f) [0x417b5f] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x33efe1d994] -> dovecot/imap [0x4081e9]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- kernel 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5
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