Reconfigure imap-login to high-performance mode

High-security mode could be configured
to handle more connections by increasing process_limit,
but has problems logging in many users at once after
each Dovecot restart or config reload.
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link2xt
2025-06-02 22:02:59 +00:00
committed by l
parent 4a6aa446cd
commit 4b721bfcd4
2 changed files with 28 additions and 11 deletions

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@@ -177,20 +177,34 @@ service auth-worker {
}
service imap-login {
# High-security mode.
# Each process serves a single connection and exits afterwards.
# This is the default, but we set it explicitly to be sure.
# See <https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/login_processes/#high-security-mode> for details.
service_count = 1
# Inrease the number of simultaneous connections.
# High-performance mode as described in
# <https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/admin_manual/login_processes/#high-performance-mode>
#
# As of Dovecot 2.3.19.1 the default is 100 processes.
# Combined with `service_count = 1` it means only 100 connections
# can be handled simultaneously.
process_limit = 10000
# So-called high-security mode described in
# <https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/admin_manual/login_processes/#high-security-mode>
# and enabled by default with `service_count = 1` starts one process per connection
# and has problems logging in thousands of users after Dovecot restart.
service_count = 0
# Increase virtual memory size limit.
# Since imap-login processes handle TLS connections
# even after logging users in
# and many connections are handled by each process,
# memory size limit should be increased.
#
# Otherwise the whole process eventually dies
# with an error similar to
# imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login):
# child 1422951 returned error 83
# (Out of memory (service imap-login { vsz_limit=256 MB },
# you may need to increase it)
# and takes down all its TLS connections at once.
vsz_limit = 1G
# Avoid startup latency for new connections.
#
# Should be set to at least the number of CPU cores
# according to the documentation.
process_min_avail = 10
}