[PATCH] increase fd_limit to max_client_limit automatically

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22 Jan 2015, at 14:01, Lauri Tirkkonen <ltirkkon at niksula.hut.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi, with a low soft limit on file descriptors, dovecot 2.2.15 warns on
> startup:
> 
>    Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load
>    (256 < 1000), because of default_client_limit
> 
> It could try increasing the limit first, and only report the warning if that
> fails. I'm attaching a patch that does just this.

It could .. But somehow it doesn't seem like a good idea to me to do automatically. Maybe the limits are there intentionally. Maybe it's the Dovecot settings that are wrong and not the ulimits.