[dovecot] Re: Failure in the presence of too many connections

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:17, Mark E. Mallett wrote:

Sorry for being non-specific. dovecot-auth was the program that logged the error, like this:

dovecot-auth: getpwnam(xxxx) failed: Too many open files

What passdb are you using? PAM? Something is leaking fds there, but I don't think it's getpwnam() itself.