[Dovecot] Too many open files

[Tim Tyler]

    We were running 1.015r (since that is what Redhat distributes) 
and had the "Too many open files" problem.  We were using PAM at 
first and then userdb ldap.  We upgraded to 1.10 and all seems to be 
fixed for us now.  I have no idea about the in between 
versions.   Upgrading to 1.10 seems to work.
Tim

At 03:30 AM 1/10/2008, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:41 +0100, Claude Frantz wrote:
> > Hello !
> >
> > The problem with "Too many open files" has disappeared here when using
> > the version dovecot.i386 1:1.0.9-0_65.fc7 on a system running Fedora 7.
> > With the more recent version dovecot.i386 1:1.0.10-0_66.fc7, the problem
> > occurs again as it did previously.
>
>There's hardly any difference between 1.0.9 and 1.0.10, except if you're
>using LDAP passdb/userdb. Unless the RPM was packaged differently, I'd
>say it's just a chance that 1.0.9 happens to (appear to) work and 1.0.10
>doesn't.
>
>

Tim Tyler
Network Engineer - Beloit College
tyler at beloit.edu