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

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:49 -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

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?

If this happens again, check how many imap, imap-login and dovecot-auth processes are running. Can you check with Solaris 9 what fds are open for a process (for dovecot master process)? Looks like with Solaris 10 I can at least see from /proc/pid/fd/ if the fds are pipes, sockets or files.