[Dovecot] open files

[Steve Heaven]

This morning dovecot stopped allowing pop3 logins. In the logs I found
the messages below
Is there a config value for the max open files ?


Dec  7 10:00:22 frigga dovecot: execv(/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3)
failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:01:14 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:03:40 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:03:40 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:03:40 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:03:40 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:03:43 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:03:45 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:04:39 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:04:41 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:04:50 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:05:00 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:05:02 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:06:05 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:06:05 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:06:05 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:06:06 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:07:48 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Dec  7 10:08:05 frigga dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files