Bug 213851

Summary:	net-mail/dovecot-1.0.13-r1 fails to start on 64-bit arch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Emil Wojak <korionis>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) <wschlich>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	net-mail+disabled
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253363
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Emil Wojak 2008-03-18 17:38:58 UTC

Trying to start dovecot with the default configuration fails. It only happens on 64-bit architectures.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge dovecot
2. /etc/init.d/dovecot start
Actual Results:  
After issuing /etc/init.d/dovecot start with the default configuration, it fails leaving the following in logs:
dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.13 starting up
dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
dovecot: auth(default): dovecot-auth: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
dovecot: child 32460 (auth) returned error 127


This can be fixed by changing the memory limit on auth process to at least 64 MB, ie. edit /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and set auth_process_size=64

Comment 1 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-18 22:05:02 UTC

Huh?!

Here are the defaults process sizes:

auth_process_size: 256
login_process_size: 64
mail_process_size: 256

The referenced RedHat bug is about login_process_size==32,
which is NOT the default anymore. =net-mail/dovecot-1.0.13-r1
definitely has login_process_size==64.

In contrast, you are talking about auth_process_size.
But that one is 256 by default...