[Dovecot] Re: Apple Mail and too many open files?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 24 20:29:24 EEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:51, Roger Weeks wrote:
> >
> > OS X is configured by default with these numbers way too low. OS X has
> > some really dumb processes like AFP that will chew through all of your
> > open files and not cope cleanly with running out of allowable/ 
> > available
> > filehandles.
> 
> If you're running filesharing of ANY kind on your mail server, you  
> should stop it.  Mail servers should run mail, not run AFP and Samba  
> and other things.

Why?  A robust OS can do many things at once up to its resource
limits.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com




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