On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:17, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > Sorry for being non-specific. dovecot-auth was the program that logged > the error, like this: > > dovecot-auth: getpwnam(xxxx) failed: Too many open files What passdb are you using? PAM? Something is leaking fds there, but I don't think it's getpwnam() itself.