[Dovecot] odd epoll() errors

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Dec 29, 2008, at 10:03 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>> Dec 29 16:43:58 postamt dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.7 starting up
>> Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too 
>> many open files
>
> Has epoll worked before?

Yes. I think I found the issue: some imap-login processes wouldn't
die, after I kill -9'ed them, I got:

Dec 30 09:05:33 postamt dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now
...
Dec 30 09:05:33 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files
... kill -9 ...
Dec 30 09:06:33 postamt dovecot: Created login processes successfully, unstalling

Now the errors are gone.

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