[Dovecot] leaking file descriptors? imap-login: inotify_init() failed

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 15 13:56:34 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:24 -0800, Dale Bewley wrote:
>  dovecot: imap-login: inotify_init() failed: Too many open files

I guess it's this:

       EMFILE The user limit on the total number of inotify instances
has been
              reached.

There's no reason for imap-login processes to use inotify at all though.
This should fix it:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-February/007685.html

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