2 Apr
2009
2 Apr
'09
8:08 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 21:03 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
From my log:
Dec 29 16:43:58 postamt dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.7 starting up Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files
I finally figured this out. You need to increase /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances. I'll improve the error message and add checks to Dovecot startup to warn if it's too low.