On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:26:00PM -0800, Dean Blackburn wrote:
I'm just writing to see if anyone else is seeing the following issues, and particularly if they are running OS X (especially 10.4), and/or have compatible solutions (I've been reading the mailing list quite a bit, and every now and then, I find a solution that just "doesn't work" because of the differences in OS:
- Too many files open - no plimit command on OS X, so I can't figure out how to increase the max number of open files... Also, are there any alternative means of CLOSING the files? stopping/restarting dovecot didn't seem to help;
You can use limit/ulimit - depending on how you start dovecot. (If you use launchd, take a look at 'launchctl limit maxfiles'.)
If you need to change it for the system, you can use sysctl - though at least on my machine the default seem more than adequate:
[p7:1004] ~%sysctl -a | grep files 6:01PM kern.maxfiles = 12288 kern.maxfilesperproc = 10240
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