[Dovecot] OpenBSD and too many open files

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 1 19:41:16 EEST 2007


On 1.8.2007, at 19.36, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:

> On Aug 1, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Quentin Garnier wrote:
>
>> Sounds more like a file descriptor leak.  Check fstat output so  
>> see what
>> kind of descriptors are leaked, how fast, etc.
>
> Thank you for your quick response. Unfortunately, I restarted  
> dovecot this morning and so this probably isn't very helpful now  
> but here it is anyway. What should I be looking for to indicate a  
> leak? The outputs of 'fstat -u _dovecot' and 'fstat -u  
> _dovecot_login' follow:

You didn't say which process got the "too many files" error, but  
usually it's the Dovecot master process. Could you show the exact  
error message so I can be sure? Here you showed only imap, imap-login  
and pop3-login processes, not dovecot process.
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