[dovecot] Re: Failure in the presence of too many connections
Charlie Brady
charlieb-dovecot at e-smith.com
Mon Mar 31 22:19:27 EEST 2003
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> The only way to make the services start responding again is to stop and
> restart the dovecot suite of control processes. dovecot suite of control
> processes.
Or you can run things my way (under tcpserver/stunnel/imapfront-auth) and
there's one dovecot process for each connection, each unrelated. This
illustrates my point about re-using already well trusted simple programs
to do as much of the task as possible.
> Raising the openfiles limit
> certainly pushes off the problem, and maybe that's a good enough
> workaround (as long as there's always a higher limit availble...)
... which is something that you can *never* assume.
--
Charlie
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