On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:20:26PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:51 -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote:
I upgraded (NetBSD 2.99 i386) from 1.0rc7 to 1.0rc24 and then tried rc25, and in both cases need to restart Dovecot every day or so (low volume server). It seems to run out of file descriptors. I have now raised the file descriptor limit to 1024, but that is not a long-term solution...
I guess you built with kqueue code?
I used the pkgsrc defaults. It looks like this uses kqueue. I am puzzled why kqueue introduces descriptor leaks.
It seems to be buggy with older NetBSDs.
Is "it" the kqueue code in the kernel (how does this lead to descriptor leaks) or the kqueue-using event code in Dovecot (how does this lead to descriptor leaks).
What can I do to work around the issue?
-- Viktor.