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

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Fre, 2009-12-18 at 18:32 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 12/18/2009, JW (jw at mailsw.com) wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux:
> 
> You also forgot the bare neceesities, like dovecot version, dovecot -n
> output and log entries exhibiting the problem.
And for the current case looking into /proc/$(pidof dovecot)/fd should
show all open fds (and $(ls -1 /proc/$(pidof dovecot)/fd | wc -l) should
be somewhat near the limit).

> I'm actually amazed at how many people post on support lists and say
> 'Help! Its not working!! What did I do wrong?!' - do they really expect
> meaningful help?
> 
> Even more amazing, on this list Timo can often divine the answer anyway...
He has probably am extremely good crystal ball;-)

	Bernd
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