* On 10/01/07 10:43 -0600, Steven F Siirila wrote: | I am re-posting this message from last Friday, as I have seen no replies. | It is critical that we address this problem, since until then we cannot | put more than a few hundred users on our server. I run a server with 8,000 accounts with dovecot rc15 all this time. A few hundred is not a big number, since it's less than 1000. | If Dovecot-auth TRULY needs to keep open a file descriptor for every single | login session, we will have to start looking at alternatives. Are you threatening someone? Seriously though, there must be something very broken in your OS, I think. I run FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE on about 40 systems, all with dovecot rc15 and each handling at least 100 accounts (bar for my big server with 8000+) and I don't hear complains... Why don't you start by switching OS? ;) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -- Ursula K. LeGuin