Interesting.... But I used to have dovecot work with the same number of users (up to 9,000) and with the default number of fole descriptors with no problems... I can give it a try, though.
I can't upgrade dovecot until Red Hat releases a new version.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steffen Kaiser < skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Mario Gomide wrote:
I'm using Dovecot 1.0.7 in RHEL 5.4 64bits as a IMAP/POP3 server.
and stuff. After a while it times out and doesn't connect. Then the
clients (e.g. outlook, thunderbird) start taking long to connect and then they timeout. Important: Only IMAP connections timeout! POP3 continues ok. This latency keeps on going until dovecot finally hangs (after about 10 to 15 minutes). The problem is solved when I restart/reload dovecot.
I had similiar problems once. The problem went away after I increased the maximum number of open file descriptors (ulimit -n).
Maybe, you should upgrade, v1.0 is pretty old.
Regards,
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