Re: [Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: too many open files

I found this:

echo "4096" > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max

First cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max to see what it's set to.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

Help...

Dovecot 1.0alpha1 hung up today with nothing working and the following spewing to my syslog:

pipe() failed: Too many open files

My setup: Solaris 9, just using imap, mbox format. The various "max" settings in dovecot.conf use the defaults. Suggestions on what to change in fovecot.conf to keep this from happening?

Jeff Earickson Colby College

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