[Dovecot] And again... too many open files

Hi!

Two days ago I upgraded to 1.2.15, and again I the warning

"Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load"

reappeared.

It's a bit weird, because my actual limits are higher. From /etc/security/limits.conf

•           soft    nofile          4096

•           hard    nofile          8192

  root soft nofile 4096 root hard nofile 8192 dovecot soft nofile 4096 dovecot hard nofile 8192

I added the * lines to avoid problems if a new user was involved, and finally supposed it was a bug in the detection process.

Today, as expected, dovecot was not responding with the famous "Too many open files" error. Has something changed? Is there some way to know which is the maximum number of files that can be open? Is there some parameter I can change to avoid this?

Here's my dovecot -n

# 1.2.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) syslog_facility: local1 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 256 login_processes_count: 16 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 2048 first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot nas/%u/control mail_nfs_storage: yes lock_method: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u auth default: cache_size: 1000 cache_ttl: 6000 master_user_separator: * debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/bloqueados deny: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/shadow passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-master.conf master: yes userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/passwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs

Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación