On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:35 +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
Am 14.12.2005 um 11:05 Uhr +0100 schrieb Hauke Fath:
after about a day of operation, dovecot 1.0alpha5 (NetBSD/i386 2.1) died on me with
Dec 14 10:53:52 bounce dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Dec 14 10:54:23 bounce last message repeated 279661 times Dec 14 10:56:23 bounce last message repeated 1071807 times Dec 14 10:56:59 bounce last message repeated 325386 times
-- any ideas on what to tune?
I just noted that I ran into this before: http://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-July/003964.html
For now, I bumped the 'open files' shell limit in the dovecot start script to 1024 (default was 64 which sounds a bit on the low side).
<trolling start> "a bit on the low side" ... you must be joking </trolling end>
64 files as default for any process is absolutely weird.
just do a
% lsof -p $PID
on any process and think twice about setting the max open files to such a strange value.
regards
Udo Rader
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