Re: [Dovecot] "pipe() failed: Too many open files" - ??

Hauke Fath wrote:

Hi list,

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?

hauke

it's pretty likely that some service on your machine went nuts and didn't close his files .. what is running on that box ?

doesn't have to be doevcots fault at all

Florian