[Dovecot] "pipe() failed: Too many open files"

[peter]

Thanks, I updated in the meantime to 1.02, which is currently the newest
 in OpenBSD 4.0 packages. The problem has vanished completely.
Performance has gone up in general a lot, too.

This is a wonderful programme, thanks Timo, for your hard work and for
responding to a newbie's question

Peter



Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:50 +0100, peter wrote:
>> I am getting random disconnects from my imap session, dificulties to
>> revconnect, very sluggish behaviour when changing between mail folders
>> also frequent and rapidly repititive messages on te client "mailserver
>> x.x.x.x is not a imap4 server"
>>
>> I am running dovecot 1.0.rc2 from ports on OpenBSD 4.0 on a PIII, 500MHz
>> 512MB
> 
> That's a really old version. You should be running v1.0.0 or later.
> 
>> Aug 31 20:51:57 apache dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> 
> If the port used --with-ioloop=kqueue, that's the problem. kqueue is a
> bit buggy with OpenBSD.
>