[Dovecot] Dovecot should raise the limit of file descriptors at startup...

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:07:10AM +0200, Angel Marin wrote:
> Timo Sirainen escribió:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:08 +0200, Peter Eriksson wrote:
> >> Perhaps the Dovecot master process should raise it's own limit to the
> >> allowed maximum when it starts? (getrlimit()+setrlimit()), or be

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> I'm sorry, but having arbitrary programs change limits set by a system
> policy because they feel like it, doesn't look like a good idea to me.
> When I configure a policy I expect it to stay that way, and if it

I thunk you still can set "hard" limits if you don't want applications
overriding your policy. To me, overriding a soft limit does make sense
on an application-by-application basis.

Regards
- -- tomás
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